HIS MAJESTY'S LETTER TO His Right Trusty, and Wellbeloved Subjects, the Aldermen and Common-council of the City of London, to be communicated to all His loyal Subjects within the Cities of London and Westminster.  
Brought by the Duke of Richmond, Novemb. 7. 1648.  
And Col. Hammonds Declaration concerning the King, for preservation of His Royal Person from the hands of His Enemies; and his Protestation touching the same.  
With a Message from the Army to the said Col. Hamond, and their Propositions and Desires touching the person of the King, and their Design touching the Treaty.  
Dated at Newport Novem. 6. and brought by the Post yesterday.   royal blazon or coat of arms 
C R  HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT 
London Printed for R. RISHTON, 1648.   

JOYFUL NEWS From the Prince's NAVY AND A great Victory obtu●ned at Sea: With the particulars thereof, and the manner of the Fight. Sent in a Letter from the Navy the 4 of Novemb. 1648.  
SIR,  
ON Thursday last being the 2. of this instant Novem. we received an Alarm from Sea, occasioned by certain ships, who had the Prince's colours, and struck sail within three leagues of Helverd-stuce; whereupon the Lord admiral sent forth three Frigates, and two of the great Vessels, who chased them, and gave them many a gallant shot, and after few hours dispute, boarded one of them, & sunk another; the Master of the prize which was taken, confessed, that they were bound for the Prince, with a resolution to join with him, and to assist his Highness against the Parliament.  
This Fleet is said to consist of about eleven ships, most of them being men of War, and it is rumoured, that they were most of them Swedish Ships.  
But the Prince's Fleet hath declared, that they will not be commanded by any strangers, who since the dismissing of the Lord Willoughby, and Capt. Batten, have made Prince Rupert Lord Admiral; but the Seamen were so much enraged and troubled thereat, that they began to mutiny, resisted the Command of Pr. Rupert and the rest of the Irish and Dutch Commanders▪ fell to blows, killed 3 or 4 eminent Commanders, wounded divers of them, amongst the rest, Prince Rupert hath received a dangerous wound, and its thought mortal. The Conflict being ended, the Mariners of the revolted ships called a Council amongst themselves, turned ●ut Pr. Rupert, and divers others, and have made choice of new Commanders.  
They have sent a Letter to the Prince of Wales, to invite him aboard; but by reason of the weakness of his body, occasioned by sudden sickness, and a dangerous disease, He cannot answer their expectations.  
The Lord Admiral hath again offered them Indemnity, and it is conceived they will embrace the same, for they have protested to his Lordship, never to engage with the Prince's Cavalry; The Lord Admiral hath sent a Declaration to them, advertising.  
That He will use his utmost endeavours towards the settling of truth, and a happy peace in this unsettled Church and Kingdom, and that He will be instrumental for the bringing of his Majesty to London, and settling of His Majesty, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, and the rest of His Royal Issue in their just Rights and privileges, s soon as His Majesty shall be pleased to satisfy and confirm the Desires of his two Houses of Parliament so much tending to the good and preservation both of Religion, Crown and Lingdoms.  
Some Overtures have been lately made between his Highness the Prince of Wales, and his Lordship, in relation to a conjunction and uniting of both Navies; but his Lordship hath utterly detested against the s●me, slighting the Prince's invitation and representing a Letter unto his Highness, That he takes it as the greatest dishonour that can be incident to man, for any Personage whatsoever to betray the trust reposed in him, and that He is resolved to sacrifice his life in the Cause and Engagement which he hath undertaken, not doubting but that the omnipotent God of Heaven (to whom the Honour of his Engagement doth belong) will cause the Wnids and Seas to fight for them, whose Truth is their Banner, Shield and Bucker; and therefore dehorts his Highness to persist no longer in the way he is in, but forthwith to come in, and unite himself with the Parliament, that so his person may be preserved from all violence and injury, and a restoration made of all due Rights and privileges, and that he may render himself instrumental for the composing of all differences, and establlshing of a firm and lasting Peace throughout His Father's Realms and Dommions.  
This Letter is said to be sent from aboard the St. George, to the Prince at Helversluce,  
Letters further from the Navy say, That the Prince is desirous to spin out some longer time at Goree before he puts to Sea, in expectation of what the Treaty wil● produce, and that if it takes not effect, he is resolved for Ireland, to join with the Marquis of Ormond, and the Lord Inchiqueen, and to land an Army in the West of England at the Spring, for the re-investing of the King, and restoring of Him to his just Rights, Power and Authority  
The said Letters do further intimate, That the Lord high Admiral hath received a Letter from his Majesty, purporting things of great concernment, and how fare he hath condescended to the desires of his two Houses, desiring him to be instrumental for the settling of a firm and lasting peace.  
From aboard the St. George 4. Novemb. 1648. From the Isle of Wight thus.  
SIR,  
SInce my last, Here hath happened several Overtures between his Majesty and the Parliaments Commissioners; they have had much debate upon the Propositions, especially that concerning the Church, which the King stuck much at; but the dark Cloud being expelled, and the splendour of the Gospel shining most gloriously in the eyes of his Majesty, He was graciously pleased to declare his Royal Assent to all the Propositions, and to grant His Royal Word to pass all things desired by his two Houses, that may be agreeable and consonant to the fundamental Laws of this Kingdom. And as to the business of the Church (which is all they stick at) the King hath promised to give his concurrence therein, rather than his People shall suffer for his disassenting. And 14 days more being added to the Treaty, it is hoped a fair conclusion will attend the happy beginning. His Majesty hath delivered another Paper to the Commissioners, which I have here inserted, viz.  
CHARLES R.  
HIs Majesty resteth very much unsatisfied, That you have now again wholly declined the answering of those three questions so clearly proposed by him, which yourselves also confess to be of great importance, upon this only pretence, That the whole volumn of Ecclesiastical policy is contained in them: Whereas his Majesty did neither expect nor require from you any large or polemical Discourse concerning those Questions conceiving that you were in some sort obliged to have declared what your judgement was therein, with the grounds thereof. For certainly until one of these three things can be clearly evidenced unto his Maj. 1. Either that there is no certain form of Church Government at all prescribed in the Word. 2 That the Civil power may change the fame as they see cause. 3 Or if it be unchangeable, that it was not Episcopal, but some other, his Maj. thinks himself excusable in the judgement of all reasonable men, if he cannot be induced to give his consent to the utter abolition of that Government of the Church which he found here settled to his hands, which hath continued all over the Christian world, from the times of the Apostles until this last Age.  
And for the better faciliating the Work in hand, we hear that his Majesty hath sent a Message (by the D. of Lenox) to the Aldermen and Common-council of the City of London, and also to divers members of both Houses, intimating, That He desired a longer time to be added to the Treaty, desiring them to be instrumental for the re-investing of his Majesty, and to agitate for his speedy coming to London, with other remarkable Occurrences, which He desires may be cammunicated to his Royal hearted Citizens, and that they may seriously read and peruse the same. It is conceived his Majesty hath some notable design against the Army, for He hath vowed to play a new Game, if the Treaty take not effect. But upon the close of this Letter, here arrived a Post from the Army to Col. Hamond, desiring him to be vigilant for the last 14 days added to the Treaty, and to prevent his Majesty's escape there being a design laid for the conveying of his person away, if he cannot accomplish his desires in the said respite of time. Col. Hamond is extraordinary vigilant in managing the great trust reposed in Him, and hath declared that he will use his utmost endeavours for the preservation of His Majesty's Royal person from the hands of his Enemies, and to protect him from the rage and subtlety of those who seek his Majesty's ruin [meaning the Royal party now resident at his Court] And the Soldiery do assure him, they will live and die with him therein.  
Newport 6 Novemb. 1648.  
FINIS.