News out OF THE Low-countries, Sent in two Letters: The one to the Earl of Newcastle, The other to captain CRISPE, Now resident with his Majesty▪ Declaring the likelihood of civil wars to be betwixt the Prince of Orange, and the States of the United Provinces.  
First printed at Oxford for William Web, and since r●pri●t●d in London. 1643.   

MY Lord, since the departure of colonel ●oring (from whose happier expr●ssions I doubt not but you have received the humble acknowledgements, and assurances of my service to your Honour) we have here but little news, is worthy your honour's observance. His friends with what strength they can produce are making their best dispatches to second him. We have our hearts in England, though our bodies be in Holland, and our bodies are making what speed they can to overtake our hearts. The eyes of the Princes of Christendom are looking on you, and know not well what to resolve upon, but stand a while at gaze, and wait on the events that do attend you. We heard of some defeats were given you, but we dare not be such cowards to your Honour and your cause as to believe it, especially since At●● hath credibly informed us that in spite of winter and opposition you have cut your way through your thickest enemies, and with gallant resolution and success do increase in numbers, as you adv●●ce mo●e near unto his Majesty. If you could dispense with so much honour, as to forbear your hand a little from your sword and take your pen into it, it would bring great satisfaction to us to understand the news betwixt Oxford and London, and to be informed therein from a person of your eminence a●d authority. The affairs move here in the same condition as they do with you, and are almost sick of the same distempers. The Prince hath kept a private Christmas at ●●eda, and though he hath been oft invited to the Hague, he cannot be induced to take his journey to it, and thinks hims●lf safer garrisoned in his ow● town then befriended in the Queen's Court. Count Ernests son hath been much wrought upon, with what friends and strength he could make to assist his Majesty of England, but being not to be persuaded thereunto, he told the Prince of Ora●ge very resolutely, that he would not adventure his ●onour, nor his life in that quarrel, nor lose a drop of blood among parricidial swords, and gave the Prince who still importuned him to that service such bold and unrespective words, that the Prince forgetting all moderation with his closed hand struck him on the cheek, who not enduring the indignity betook himself unto his sword, and making a full thrust against the Prince had desperately endangered his life had not the vigilance, and fidelity of some that stood by prevented the mischief which was pointing at his life. There was also since that one Gray an English man, and a soldier sometimes in colonel Culpeper's Regiment, who suffered justly the strappado for speaking scandalous, and traitorous words against the Queen of England, and did not blush to affirm and compare her to the late Queen of France her Mother, saying, that in this respect she was like unto her, and wheresoever she came, that division, war and ruin did attend her, ascribing the difference betwixt the Prince of Orange and the States to her residing amongst them. I could willingly write out the other hour, and enlarge my service to your honour, but I know ●n these active times you look on men, and not on papers, and having not the leisure to peruse them, I should rather torment you, then delight you: I should therefore be a very bad subject and sin against his Majesty and the common good, should I withhold you any longer from your great employment which cannot have a more able supporter than yourself, nor a more faithful votary than he who is my Lord,  
Your Honous most humble and constant servant. S. R.   

SIR,  
THE distempers of these times are great, contrary winds and minds blowing from all the corners of the Christian world▪ I do by the opportunity of the first Bark committed to the wind and Seas, acquaint you with our distractions equal in many respects unto yours. We have heard of much dangerous opposition against your King, and it is our wonder, that you should turn your country into an Anarchy, and rend power from the King to invest yourselves with democratical Diade●es: while they labour to keep the free liberty of the Estates of Holland, they would maintain their old Rights, and keep the Prince of Orange only titular, and depending upon their will, limiting his power to be subordinate to popular Regality, a solecism and contradiction in nature; your affairs move upon the same hinge. But the Prince of Orange that is a known soldier, and hath deserved much of the Estates, will not brook this opposition; but finding that the common people esteem Princes and soldiers only in the field, and do forget their brave service, accounting them for service, only their servants, and then prove ungrateful: Besides, a Prince incensed can endure no vulgar weakness, strong only in base thoughts and contempt of Principalities, as your plebeians are in England. From these motives much disturbance is like to proceed: For when vulgar strength and Principality meet, they are like torrents, that mutually oppose one another. These growing evils are nourished by malignant's, as you have; some declare themselves for the Prince, some for the States: and I know not whether they have learned the Art of opposing Princes, by adhering to your Parliament; but believe it, we foresee what horrible mischiefs the Fates have plotted against us, and what blood must be drawn from our own veins, or rather vanities, pride and ambition, and competition for prerogative, drawing us on to murder one another, as you (according to intelligence given us) did at Kenton battle: Our hopes are weak concerning any pacification; but our fears are great that the Low-countries have seen their best and most flourishing days: for war doth shut up all trading and commerce; and where it doth once enter, it destroys whole kingdoms, it brings in wretched misery, and all sorts of ineffable calamity. What passionate words can declare the bleeding state of a kingdom distracted by civil war? Our daily intelligence of your affairs, doth make great impressions of fear in us, that our disagreement between the Prince of Orange and the States, will at last (as your contention in England did) break out into a civil war. In regard of the firm league between England and Holland, and the good service our country hath done unto that kingdom, by frustrating the continual designs of many Spanish Fleets, and sinking their tallest ships in the merciless seas, I persuade me, that the report of these growing dissensions amongst us, will make some begin to compare your present state with ours. Prerogatives claimed on both sides, doth thrust us on to fight, and our great power flatters us, that we have both right unto that which we pretend. The Prince and the States are united and separated, as the King and Parliament are in England, by the affection of the people, and I fear that this our division can bring nothing but ruin. Join with us therefore in your prayers, that it would please God to settle and compose the distracted condition of your kingdom, to establish your King in peace, and the general affection of his subjects, and vanquish all his enemies in his own Army; and that our country looking on your calamity, may clearly behold itself, and what we shall be if we fall out about words. It is a strong piece of the devil's subtlety, to provoke nature to shedding of blood, let the cause be never so good, his ends are close and private, and destruction of kingdoms is that whereat his malice doth chiefly aim. But we hope ambition shall not make us butcher and murder one another, as you have done: And since some part of England's strength must needs live and die with Holland's happiness, let your prayers beseech heaven for peace in both countries, to prevent our war, and set a period to yours.  
Your loving obliged friend, H. R.  
FINIS.