Numb. 612.
Mercurius Politicus
COMPRISING
The sum of Foreign Intelligence, with
the Affairs now on foot in the Three Nations
OF
ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, & IRELAND
For Information of the People.
Published by Order of Parliament.
From Thursday March 15. to Thursday March 22. 1609.
From chester, March 16.
WE have of late had very slencer Accounts
from Ireland; She Reports were,
that they had declared for a King and a
Free Parliament, and some Passengers occasioned
this discourse; but the truth is,
they have had distinct Designs of their own brewing among
them, holding the Interest of the Commonwealth; but
withal, mingling concernments of their own, as they are
Members of the Country of Ireland, which (it seems) some
of them would have not so absolutely depending upon England