MORE news FROM hull.  
OR, A most Happy and Fortunate Prevention, of a most Hellish and devilish Plot, occasioned by some unquiet and discontented spirits, against the Town of Hull; Endeavouring to command their Admittance by casting Balls of Wild-fire into the Town, which by policy and entreaty they could not obtain.  
ALSO, THE HUMBLE PETITION Of the bailiffs, Burgesses, and Inhabitants of Ludlow, in the County of Salop, under the hands of their Corporation, and the Liberties thereof.  
LONDON. Printed for Richard Cooper. 1642.   

TO THE KINGS MOST Excellent majesty, Lords and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled. The Humble Petition of Us, the bailiffs, Burgesses, and Inhabitants of Ludlow, in the County of Salop, under the hands of our Corporation, and the Liberties thereof.  
Humbly Sh●●ing,  
THat the Town of Ludlow is a walled Town, and for many ages past, hath been( in respect of healthful situation) esteemed a fit and convenient place for the Prince of Wales;( His majesty having a fair Castle thereunto adjoining) and in regard of the conveniency for all Wales and the Marches, the chief place and Residence of the Lord President and council in the Marches of Wales, ever since the erection of that Court, which began in the Reign of King Edward the fourth, by which means great conflux of people did resort to the said Town, to have Justice administered unto them, in their causes depending before the said council.  
The Inhabitants thereof for entertainment of such suitors, did dispose and make fit their Houses, and laid out all their Stocks in making provision for that purpose, and by that means they maintained their families, relieved the poor, and paid all taxes laid upon the Town, being many housholds and divers thousand souls dwelling in the said Town. But now sithence the Jurisdiction of the said Court of the council in the Marches of Wales hath been questioned in this present Parliament, there hath been little resort to the said Town, and thereby their provision for the last Winter lies upon their hands, and have no means to get any thing for their present maintenance. But spend their stocks, whereby many families are already much decayed in their Estates, and the greatest part of the Inhabitants will in short time grow so poor, that they will not be able to provide maintenance for their families, much less to relieve the poor, or pay any taxes imposed upon them, if the Jurisdiction of that Court should be taken away, and thereby they deprived of their means of livelihood; the said Town having no Navigable River, or any Common Road or means of trading to support their Estates; but their wives and children are like to fall into great poverty and misery, and will be the utter undoing of thousand poor souls, which heretofore did support and maintain themselves, and were helpful to others.  
Wherefore having hereby laid open and presented our Estates to your most Excellent majesty and Parliament, we humbly desire the same may be taken, that the said Jurisdiction may be established as to your majesty, and the wisdom of the Parliament, shall be thought best for the advancement of justice, the good and benefit of this part of the kingdom, who have for a long time lived happily, peaceably and plentifully, under that government; and that we and our posterity may not be exposed to utter ruin and destruction.  
And your Petitioners as in all duty will daily pray for your majesty and Parliament. Subscribed, By— 

bailiffs. 

THO. HEATH.  
WILL. COVLEVD●E.    
Justices. 

EDW. JONES.  
JOHN PATSHET.    
RICHARD FLETCHER Rector with 300 hands.  
HENRY E●LLSTON Esq; Steward of the Castle.     

news from Hull.  
IT is most strange and admirable beyond the corruption and belief of any ordinary capacity, to think of the diversity and danger of the several Plots and practices which have of latter times been attempted, & put in execution, partly against the general peace and prosperity of this kingdom, partly against the quiet and tranquillity of particular places and persons. And these. Plots have taken Birth, and been fomented by some unquiet and discontented spirits, who could not obtain the fruition and security of their own inventions: but by disjointing and disordering the public welfare. It would be too tedious to trouble the Reader with a Recapitulation of particular mischievous attempts, the distempers and dangers of this kingdom are made too familiar to every dull understanding, and every true-hearted subject cannot but with grief bef●tting a public calamity apprehended, and grow sensible of every occasioned distraction, and by his prayers to God, and his industry, labour all such succeeding intentions, which tend to the dishonour of his majesty, and the ruin of the Common-wealth. Besides these foreign sturs and commotions, which although they were acted beyond the seas, yet have much troubled the peace of this Nation. There arose some civil dissensions, and not many days were past, when we did happily conceive that a general peace would bespread this island; but a breach was made at Hull, that breach was scarce made up, but a more terrible and dangerous hazard of the Town of Hull hath been attempted, and there arose not many days since in those parts, a number of most seditious and tumultuous spirits, who without al question were rather stirred up by fury then judgement, and lead on rather by discontent and faction, then by affection either to the r King and country.  
There ●rose some, I say, whose aims would not be faithful, nor intentions honest, who had a strange resolution of a most unheard of desire, to compass by mischief and ruin, what by words and entreaty they could not obtain. These ha●ing gathered a head together, and now being bellum multorum capitum, a beast of many heads, a most confused tumult, without question with a r●all intention of mischief, cast Balls of wild-fire into the Town of Hul●, which Balls were set on fire, and thrown into the town, by which malicious attempt some hurt was done, but not so much, tis thought as was by the Actors expected: for by the care and vigilancy of the Magistrates of that town, the fire was most happily stayed, before it could take possession of the bu●ldings. It is generally supposed, that the Actors in this Plot, had forecast by this means to get possession of the town, and while the Inhabitants should bee faithfully implyed in the extinguishing and prohibiting of the misunderstandings of the flames, these ill-affected members would be as busy in promoting their own desires, and took opportunity and advantage of their care and diligence, to finish and obtain their own purposes, and by this means to surprise the town, with all its strength and power belonging unto it, and then being so well strengthened by the Magazine that lay there treasured up: to work their own designs, and perfect what they had as yet but Plotted. This is the most probable conjecture of their attempt, but thanks be to God, the fire was stayed, and their intentions prevented.  
FINIS.