File Clenennau letters and papers 397 [RESTRICTED ACCESS] - John Eyton, Leeswood, to Sir William Maurice,

Letters from Tom Eyton with news from London enclosed. The writer has since heard from his correspondent that Mr Attorney General was convented to the Star Chamber on Friday sennight, and after submission and acknowledgement of his offence in open court by his own mouth he desired His Majesty might be made more acquainted with his confession before their Lordships proceeded to sentencing him which was [though hardly] granted. Since then news has come to Ludlow by packet that Mr Attorney is to receive his answer in the Star Chamber this day. Likewise news came there by packet signifying that a parliament begins the sixteenth of Jan. and that the Lord Chief Justice shall be Lord Treasurer. Attached: 1620, Oct. 30. News of the Attorney General as above. News lately from Bohemia that the King is very strong and well provided and that the Marquis Dampier, General to the Emperor, was lately taken in battle by the King of Bohemia's army and was beheaded and his head set up in Prague. Some three thousand of his men were slain and some chief men taken prisoners. There is speech of a new contribution for the maintenance of the Palatine's own country for Marquis Spindalo has taken some cities there and now aid is to be sent thither. The bishops and clergymen begin very bountifully and many great lawyers and officers give £100 a piece, and it is thought that this contribution will be as great as the former if it do not exceed it.