EXCEEDING JOYFUL NEWS From the Cavaliers at NOTTINGHAM.  
Declaring their Resolution and Propositions to the Lords at Nottingham, now attending his Royal Majesty, being happy and welcomed Tidings for London. With their terrible threaten against Colonel GORING.  
Likewise, happy Tidings from Shereborn Castle, declaring the Proceed of the Parliaments Forces against the Marquis of Hartford, and the state and condition he is now in. Signified by Letters to the House of Commons, upon Saturday last, being the 3. of September.  
Also the manner of Captain brown's coming to London on Saturday last, with 7. Troops of horse, bringing with him 5. Cart loads of Arms and Ammunition, and six Prisoners, which he took in Kent, namely the Lord Roper, Mr. Adrian Scroop the Duke of Lenox Stewart, and 4. more.  
September 6. London Printed for john Wight, 1642.   

THE CAVALIERS PROPOSITIONS. To the Lords at Nottingham, now attending his Royal Majesty.  
With the threaten of the Cavaliers against Colonel Goring.  
THe Cavaliers having information that Colonel Goring was desirous to yield up the Town of Portsmouth and to come with all Expedition to high Majesty, where having spent some time in consultation thereupon, they resolved to propound certain Propositions to the Lords at NOTTINGHAM, who are now attending his Royal Majesty, which was to this effect VIZ. 

I. That as Colonel Goring is resolved to yield up the Town of Portsmouth, to the Parliaments Forces, upon condition he may have free liberty to come to the King, therefore their humble desires are, that they would be pleased to yield their consents, that he may not be admitted to come to his Majesty.  
II. That seeing he hath proved false and treacherous to the King and Parliament, they are resolved, that wheresoever they light on him, to be his Executioner, and to cut him in pieces.    
These Propositions were presented unto the Lords at Nottingham, August 31. by many thousands of the Cavaliers.  
And upon Saturday last, being the 3. day of this instant September, the Honourable house of Commons received information from Portsmouth, that Colonel GORING hath sent several Treaties to the Committee that lieth at Suthicke five miles from the Town of Portsmouth, and would gladly yield up the Town to the Parliaments Forces, but first he is resolved to know what punishment he shall undergo before that he will resign up the same, and to that end desired the Lord WENTWORTH to go to the Committee at Suthick, with these Propositions. 

I. That if they would be pleased to grant unto him a free pardon for this Crime which he hath committed, by betraying the Trust confided in him by both houses of Parliament, he would resign up the Town.  
II. That if they would be pleased to to do him that favour, to give him leave to go beyond the Seas, and to promise, that he should be transported over with safety, he would yield up the Ordinance, and all the rest of the Ammunition. These Propositions and Desires of Colonel GORING was propounded to the Committee by the Lord WENTWORTH, but they could not give him an Answer of them, till they knew the Houses pleasure therein.    
The said GORING doth now endeavour by all possible means to make an escape out of the Town of Portsmouth, and to go beyond the Seas, but by reason of the great vigilancy and care of the Earl of Warwick, it is thought he cannot make an escape without the consent of both Houses of Parliament.  
The great spleen and malice that the Cavaliers hath took against Colonel Goring can by no ways be appeased, they having generally Resolved to be his Executioner, and to cut him in pieces, and to punish him with such torments, that never any Christian as yet endured, because he proved false and treacherous on both sides.  
He is now in a lamentable condition, and the Soldiers that are within the Town are in a great perplexity, ready to be his Executioner.  
He hath also sincs his first shutting up of the Gates held out very stoutly, and hath beaten down many Bulwarks and Fortifications, which the Parliaments Forces had raised, playing with his Ordnance very fast against them, but now he hath almost spent all his powder and shot, so that he cannot hold out very long.  
The Parliaments Forces hath now finished their Rampeer, and are resolved to make an attempt against the town very suddenly, being in great hopes of gaining the same.  
It is thought that the marquis of Hartford is in the like condition that Colonel Goring is in, by reason of the abundance of Forces that have now besieged him in his strong hold at Shereborn Castle.  
For upon Saturday last, it was signified to the House of Commons, that the marquis is compassed in with 4. or 5000. men, and that they could easily fetch him out but that they are very unwilling to shed any blood, and therefore it may be they will try his patiencr for want of food.  
Likewise upon Saturday last, Captain Brown came from Kent, and was brought in by seven Companies of Horse, and came to the Lord General's House, and having disarmed all the Papists in the County of Kent, brought six prisoners with him, whereof one was called Master Adrian Scroop the Duke of Lenox Stewart, at whose House they took five Cart Loads of Arms and Ammunition, and likewise the Lord Roper was one of them.  
It is reported by Letters from Portsmouth, that Sir John Meldrum is raising of great Horn-works against the Town, and that his Advice much advantageth the service, daily endeavouring, and using his best skill to further that happy work, he is a great encouragement to the soldiers, and a man much esteemed of amongst them, being sent down by the consent of both Houses of Parliament.  
Published for the Encouragement of all those that are well-willers to this happy Reformation.   
FINIS.