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THE
KINGDOMES
Weekly Intelligencer,
SENT ABROAD
To prevent mis-information.
From Tuesday, September 18. to Tuesday, Septemb. the 25. 1649.
THe cruell Warres in Germany, the swords of the Swedes,
and the inexorable Pole-axes of the Crabats were the sad stories,
and the Instructions of our Fathers. Our ill Commentaires
upon them (not long after) did bring home unto us as well
the Subject as the Discourse, in which by a lamentable proficiency
we have exceeded not onely them, but all other Nations, and as if
we would expiate our sinnes with our own blood, (for almost two
lustres of years) we have been opening one anothers Veines to
Syek out our Religion and our Liberty. What increase Religion
hath found hereby is too great a taske in this place to declare, It being
the proper businesse of this pen to discover unto you the Actions
of the Warre in the field; The Scenes of Discourse alwayes accompanying
the Stages of the Warre, This onely I shall insert, That
as the Insurrection in Ireland was the prologue to the late troubles
in England, so (I hope) in the Epilogue, the peace in England, will
be established, there being speedily a happy period put to the Wars
in Ireland, where first in earnest the crimson sweat began.
I made mention heretofore of some Instructions sent from
Prince Charles to the Marquis of Ormond, which the Marquis not