Good News FROM Somersetshire: Of the taking of captain Digby son to the Earl of Bristol, who had raised a troop of horse to come against the Parliament. WITH The manner of his apprehending, and the staying of his horse by the town of Sherburne, and himself stayed, to be sent up to the House of Parliament for his Censure. ALSO An Instruction from both Houses of Parliament to all justices of the Peace. Joh. Brown Cler. Parl.  
Printed for Richard Thomson. 1642. August 12.   

GOOD news FROM Somersetshire. ALSO AN INSTRUCTION from both Houses of Parliament to all justices of the Peace.  
SO hath it pleased the omnipotent & wise providence of God, that hitherto the evil-affected disturbers of this our Zion have been waylayed and taken in their own devices, yet hath the devil so far prevailed with his dear children the Pope's Brats, that they have sought the utter ruining of three flourishing kingdoms, and have left no plot unattempted for the dissolution and very essence of Parliaments, and have wrought both beyond sea and in England, to set His Majesty against this highest Court of judicature, the Court of Parliament, as may appear by the Lord Digby's and the rest of the Fugitives escape, and desiring His majesty to retire to some place of strength, where he might attend His majesty with His service, and now in defiance of justice made His majesty's Court a Sanctuary for all his designs and practices formerly by him practised, in his appearance in a warlike manner at Kingston upon Thames, to the affrightment of the whole town, and preparing saddles and other engines of war, which now his brother Captain Digby thought to have employed: and having prepared a troup of horse ready to have gone for York, promising great rewards to all that would attend him in his journey to York. But having raised his troop ready to set forward, he was taken in Sherburne, the whole town having intelligence of his coming that way, where himself and his followers are in hold, till the censure of the high Court of Parliament.   

A TRUE RELATION OF THE Plot intended against hull.  
THe Cavaliers now about Hull make their approaches near the walls in the night, but in the day time dare not come near for fear of pellets, not within two miles of the town: they burned two of the mills near the town, and in attempting to burn the rest, were violently opposed by the shot of the Canon from the town; insomuch as they returned swiftly. It is not certainly known how many of the Cavaliers were killed; and the Earl of Newport was by the force of a Canon shot dismounted and thrown into a ditch of water of a great depth, where (after he had once sunk) he was catched hold on by the hair of his head, and his life saved, which caused the Archbishop of York to give him his blessing, saying, If he had been a Roundhead he he had been drowned, for there was no hold on his head, and that the longhaired Cavaliers were the only saints. But after their retreat the high ways were much besprinkled with blood. On tuesday night last the plot was laid, and persons appointed to do the work, for firing of the town in four several places, the design for the doing it was when they did discern a fire on Beverley Minster, it should be an assurance unto them, that at the same time two thousand men should assault the walls whilst the soldiers were a quenching the fire. But this plot was discovered a few hours before, the plotters being of the alliance of Beck, with the Papist who should formerly have betrayed the town, and is now the only favourite at Court. It is certainly informed, that the King adhereth to the advice of the Cavaliers, and totally deserts the counsel of his Lords, which makes them ready to return to London, seeing themselves in a manner not worthy to be harkened unto, but rather the advice of such as seek and thirst after nothing but blood, and the utter destruction of the three kingdoms: which if it please not God to prevent, we are like by their evil suggestions to undergo the miseries of Germany and other neighbouring countries, who have their hands died in the scarlet blood of the saints, and nothing more sought after then the destruction one of another. Therefore let us remember that a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand, and seek, as far as in us lies, with tears and supplications to the Almighty for the prevention thereof.   

Die Mercurii.  
Whereas several Commissions of Array have lately issued out under the Great Seal of England, into the several Counties of Leicester, Worcester, and other Counties of this realm, tending to the great danger of His Majesty, and the disturbance of the peace of the kingdom: For the preventing thereof, and of the execution and issuing out such Commissions for the time to come, It is Ordered by the Lords and commons assembled in Parliament, That the judges and justices of Assize, of the several Counties of England and Wales, be required in their several Circuits, at the Assizes and great Sessions to be next held for each County, within this realm, and the Dominion of Wales respectively, in open Court, and in their several Charges to be delivered to the grand-juries at the said Assizes, and great Sessions, openly to declare and publish, That the said Lords & Commons assembled in Parliament have, upon mature deliberation, Resolved upon the Question, That the said Commissions of Array are against Law, and against the Liberty and Property of the subject: And that all those that are Actors in putting the same in execution, shall be esteemed disturbers of the Peace of the kingdom, and Betrayers of the Liberty of the Subject.  
Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, That this shall be forthwith printed and published.  
Ioh. Brown Cleric. Parliament.  
FINIS.