SIR Iohn Meldrun hath sent a Letter to the King, to advise Him to submit to the Parlia­ment, and His Maiestie hath given Meldruns place to Ma­ster Hilliard a Yorkeshire Gentleman that tooke Sir Iohn Hothams Ensigne.

The Lord Marquesse Hammiltoun hath [Page] made a speech to the King to vindicate him­selfe of the Iealousies that are and have been upon him, wherein he protests, not onely his owne loyaltie and fidelitie to His Maie­stie, but undertakes with the ingagement of his person and Fortunes for all his Countrey men the Scots, that they are His Maiesties undoubted faithfull Subiects and Servants, and are and will be ready to lay downe their lives and fortunes for his Maiesty whenso­ever he shall be pleased to command them, and they have sent an Admonition to the Parliament to agree and submit to their good King.

The Earle of Newcastle is made Gover­nour of Newcastle, and is now there in the Towne with a Troope of Horse, and a Re­giment of Foote, consisting of 1200. The Earle of Warwick had a designe with three Ships to have surp [...]ized Newcastle and held it for the Par [...]iament

The Lord Willoughby of Parham hath committed a M [...]ssenger of the Kings, that was [...]ent with the Kings proclamat [...]on to the Maior of Linc [...]lne, and hath sent him [Page] with a Guard to the Parliament, and com­manded the Maior to attend at Yorke.

The King and the Lords declare together the Lords having unanimiously resolved to defend the Kings person, and have there­unto all of them set their hands, and are readie to raise a great Army, the Duke of Richmond an hundred Horse, the Lord Mar­quesse Hertford an hundred Horse, and the rest of the Lords each of them forty or fifty Horse, being present above forty Lords at­tending His Majestie. The Earle of Bristoll is come to Yorke, and the Lord Paget is come and hath begged His pardon, and is now all for the King, and will set forth a Declara­tion how much he hath been abused. The King hath set forth a Narration, and hath sent Articles of Accomodation of his owne to the parliament, absolutely refusing theirs, he hath offered a generall pardon to all but nine, which are the five Members formerly impeached, and Hotham, Martin, Ludlowe, and [...]worth.

THat the Earle of Antrim is taken prisoner by the Scots, the Earle of Castlehaven commit­ted at Dublin and charged with high Trea­son, The Lord Conway being Martiall of Ireland is reported to be so poore a spirited man, that hee hath ioyned with the Scots, and put himselfe un­der the command of Colonel Munroe, and it is much feared the English and Scots will fall toge­ther by the Eares, for the Scots grow so insolent they are not to be endured.

The Lord Digby of Ireland is dead, and honest Francis Palmes of a disease in Ireland that they fear is the plague, and our English are in all kind of wants that can be imagined.

The Dutchesse of Buckingham is landed at Ches­ter, and is comming to settle her selfe at a House of hers in Nottinghamshire.

The KING in His propositions of Accom­madations doth declare that he will have the last Remonstarance taken out of the Parliament Rolls and disavowed to be the Act of both, or either, House of Parliament; That he will have the Par­liament forthwith adjourned either to one of the Vniversities, or the Cities of Yorke, Bristoll, Win­chester, Salisbury, or Coventry; and then he will sit with them. And that there be a time limited for the dispatch of all Businesse and a concluding [Page] of this Parliament. And His Majesty doth fur­ther declare in another Declaration assented unto by the Lords here, that whosoever shall furnish the Parliament with Horse, Armes, or Money, they shall be proceeded against with all legall se­verity, and that whosoever on the contrary shall fu [...]nish His Majesty with any of them for the per­forming of the Peace of the Kingdome; His Ma­j [...]sty will protect them, and repay them what th [...]y shall disburse by assurance out of His Parkes Houses, Lands, &c.