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Great Britaines painefull messenger, II, 17th-24th August 1649 E.571[22]

Numb. 11.
Great BRITAINS PAINE-Full
MESSENGER
Af-FORD ing true notice of all Affairs in England,
Wales, Scotland, Ireland and other Forraign Parts,
with the most materiall Passages of the Parliament,
Councell of State and Army, to this whole Nation.
Ormonds facing Dublin with his Royall Army of Irish. English
and Scots, and re-besieging the same. A Prize of the Parliaments taken
by the Irish and carried to the Isle of Man: Other Ships taker: Charls
the second his Letters and Embass[unr]dours dispatcht to Forraine Princes:
A new Message to the Scots. The Lord Lievtenant and Major Generall
Ireton landed in Ireland. A bloody Fight neere Kingsale, and pursuit
of the Enemy many miles. The Levellers old and new Declaration. Two
thousand more lately found slaine in Ireland.
From Friday Aug. 17. 1649. to Friday the 24. of the same.
TIs inward, Piety that causeth outward Justice
to flow from any People, Party or
Man. Tis Prudence that discovers an Evill
before its too neer approach; and its Policy
that prevents the danger which may
otherwise thereby accrue. When the first
of these leads the Van, the second the Battalia,
and the third the Reare of Publique
Actings. Then (of this most happy Discipline) are the Events
crown'd with eminents successe and renown; but when the last
(by an unhappy Countermarch) shall take place of the former,
needs must it procure great disorder, and utterly deceive the expectations
of many; who with the rest (subjugated through a
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