ON Friday about five or six at night, came three Gentlemen into the Tower to speak with Sir John Coniers, Lieutenant of the said Royall Castle and Magazine. He not being then within, one of the Gentlemen reque­sted of the Yeoman-Usher, that if he knew he were neere about, he will doe him the favour to inti­mate unto him that there were some attending him which had businesse from the King: the yeoman usher caused the message to be delivered unto the Lieutenant of the Tower, where in a gentlemans house upon the hill he then was. The Lieutenant forthwith came; and in the meane time they got into their company, Master Binian long since com­mitted for denying to submit unto the new order of Militia: they met the Lieutenant upon the Hill: and one of the three (as it seeemes, a Messen­ger) delivered a Warrant under the Great Seale of England unto him, saying, The King greets you Sir. The Lieutenant demanded whom or what it might concerne; it was answered by the Messenger, the speedy and present release of Master Binian, for [Page 2] whom his Majestie had sent and must goe along with him the Lieutenant desired some houres space to consider of it, it was answered him that he could not grant it, having expresse charge to the contrary, and for that to take any delay, for an utter denyall. Then the Lieutenant would have spoken a word in private with another Gentleman there present, who excusing himselfe denyed it, desiring his rea­dy answer, and to conceive what perill might or might not accrue unto himselfe upon the refusall. Upon those words, putting off their hats as taking leave; why quoth the Lieutenant (opening the War­rant and reading it, and once moving a little his head) then I obey, you may take him with you, and God blesse you all. So Master Binian agreeing for his fees, forthwith takes horse and towards Yorke.

Had not Master Binian made such speedy dispatch he had haply seene Coulchester before Thursday, and a worshipfull Citizen of London mude up in a Countie Gaole: What thankes and commendation the hononrable House shall thinke the Lieutenant worthy of for so speedy an execution of his Maje­sties command is not yet knowne.

Saturday morning the commission of Admiralty was taken from the Lord of Northumberland, and the Register with all other officers summoned to give their personall presence at Yorke.

Sunday the Kings Declaration was read in the Cathedrall of Pauls, where the first and second lessons are usually read; the reader where of turning himselfe unto the Communion Table, all men were commanded to stand up and to be uncovered.

[Page 3] Munday morning my Lord of Salisbury gave no­tice that the King hath taken away his commission of being Captaine of the Pensioners: And my Lord of Leicester is discharged from his Lieutenant­ship of Ireland: A message will be sent to the Earle of Warwick to forbeare the Kings Ships, three Cap­taines with their ships revolted from him, viz. Cap. Price, Cap. Stragling, Sir John M [...]nce.

THis Gentleman saith, that since the death of Sir Win Saint Leger, Lord President of Munster, who departed this life, June 17. at his Plantation and Castle of Downaray; the chie­fest ground of his sicknesse being thought to be no­thing so much as discontent, having had no sup­plies either of monies or men out of England as he expected, and his need required: The Rebels began to grow very insolent in all those parts, have fired Clannakeltie, and pillaged all the English in that En­glish Market Borough. Colonel Charles Davasor not being able to relieve them, lest he should ha­zard Corke; the Lord Presidents death not unlike­ly encouraging them to some daring attempt. [Page 5] Charles, Macke Cartie, Reuth, appeared before Ban­don bridge, June the nineteenth and twentieth, ve­ry boldly, and daringly with eight thousand Re­bels, three little Field Pieces, and made shew of a resolution to sit downe about the town, wherewith the Inhabitants are very much amazed; for the Garrison under the command of my Lord Killan Meakei, and his Lieutenant Graves, is but foure hun­dred; all English, and most Townesmen: who by reason of the change of their wonted ordinary diet and lodging, now being forced to make meat of what they can get, not what they would have, and bound almost to nightly watching, are many of them falne into the disease of the Countrey, viz. the Flux, and die twelve or fourteene a week: So that without speedy reliefe, that towne (the fairest Plantation in all Munster) is like to be lost through disease and hunger: For this Gentleman affirmeth, (who perfectly knoweth the place, having lived within sixe miles of it above fifteene yeeres) that although Mack Cartie being of no force in ammuni­tion considerable to take it by assault, most of his rabble being very ill armed, and Bandon very strongly fortified, yet he may starve them without being Master of the field, and all the Countrie a­bout; and the maladie waxing strong (being held in that Countrie of an infecting and contagious na­ture soone make their number grow small within. This Gentleman Master Barom, hath a Petition to deliver unto the honourable House, as touching the inconvenience, and as future; as present, as fatall to the child, as now unto the Father, by this new way [Page 4] of undertaking, shall it not please the House in sea­sonable time to put a remedy unto it: for the lands of the English being now all the countrey over sei­sed by the Rebels, and in processe of time (which God grant with all speed) the Rebels being van­quished, and their lands by the undertakers divided amongst them, according unto the proportion of their severall summes of money by them disbur­sed, the said lands are now to be divided of all and entire by the Rebels, and not any part of them be­longing at all unto the poore distressed English: and so they shall be in as bad a case for matter of liveli­hood after the conquest, as before; considering that in the Act newly made by both the honourable Houses, and confirmed by his Majesty, there is no mention had of them: So that they are out of all hope of ever recovering any thing in that Kingdom that was ever their owne, shall not the high Court of Parliament with all conveniencie take them in­to accustomed tender consideration.