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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 February 9. to Thursday February 16. 1660.
From Leicester, Feb. 8.
THis day the Justices of the Peace, Gentlemen, Ministers and
Frecholders of this County, had a great meeting here, the
occasion where of was this: A Petition was lately promoted
in this County, and presented to General Monck by the High
Sheriff, in the name of the Knights, Gentlemen, Ministers,
Freeholders, and other Inhabitants of the Borough and
County of Leicester, since exposed to publick view: These
Gentlemen that met this day, being persons of worth and Interest in their
Country, and such as ever adhered to the Parliament, concluding as well
from the matter of that Petition, as from their knowledge of the persons
that promoted it (amongst whom scarce one man to be found that ever served
the Parliament, being most neutral and many in Arms formerly against
them) that this is no other but a designe to promote the interest of C. Stuart;
And taking themselves abused by those Gentlemen that took the boldness to
publish such laper, as from the whole body of this County and Borough.