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Rh deliver up his commission in the Duke's regiment; and, upon his Lordship's desiring to know the reason of it, and particularly whether his zeal in promoting the petition for calling a Parliament had not been the occasion of His Majesty's displeasure, the King told him in answer, that amongst a great many others that was one. The King has commanded that the Commission of the Peace be taken from my Lord Grey, brother to the Lord Chief Justice North, who was one of the Lords that some time since presented the King with a petition for calling the Parliament. I am also told that the Commission of the Peace is like-wise taken from all who would not understand, or which is all one, would not obey His Majesty's Proclamation, prohibiting tumultuous and seditious Petitions, to which several counties in England have had great regard, as is evident by the inclosed Gazette.

Upon Friday Mr. Gadbury was sent for and