Numb: 198.
Mercutius Politicus.
Comprising the sum of all Intelligence,
with the Affairs and Designs
now on foot in the three Nations
OF
ENGLAND, IRELAND, & SCOTLAND.
In defence of the Commonwealth,
and for Information of the People.
------ It à vertere Seria. {Horat. de
Ar. Poet
From Thursday, March 23. to Thursday March 30. 1654.
From Edenburgh, March 18.
THe landing of Middleton hath filled
these parts with a thousand rumors
and as many stories are coined on
purpose to incense this People
to run new hazards of ruine. They
are told of their late Kings being
resolved to visit them, and that his Brother York
will bring Forces, and from Germany and Holland
they say they shall have mony. These phantfies
are scattel'd with a great deal of Art among the
common sort; and if the Artists effect nothing
else, they wil by this means unsettle men in their
Affections, and put many in a tottering humor.
The Enemy here had their general Rendezvouz,
and are since very active in their Levies,