Transcribed by Barb Baker. Geo. MERCURIUS AUTICUS, Sunday, March 12, 1643 WEDNESDAY March 15. By Letters of the seaventh of March it was this day certified, that the affaires of Lancashire are not in such ill conditien as the Pamphlets and reports from London make them: that Warrington and Wigan hold good for the King, and that in Liverpoole, being the principall haven towne of that County towards Ireland, there are some companies of foote of SIR THOMAS SALISBURIES Regiment, and a Troope of Flintshire horse: and (which indeed is of most importance) that the towne of Lancaster is recovered from the Rebels, by a Regiment, under the command of LIEUTENANT COLONELL TILSLEY a Lancashire man, who a was faine to make his way by fire into it. And it was certified also in the said Letters, that the Inhabitants of North-Wales are most affectionately stout in the Kings service, having not onely raised men enough for their owne defence, but that for making good the City of Chester, the severall passes over the Dee, and the towne of Liverpoole, they maintaine two Regiments of foote and some Troopes of horse. It was also signified this day from London by letters of the 11th of March, that since the reduction of the Close Committee to the originall number, they now are on the point to dissolve themselves, having so little merited the name of the Committee for the Safety of the Kingdomes and that they do it on this reason, that feeling their designs succeed not as was first expected, the miscarriage of so great and so many enterprises may be imputed rather to the whole body of the Houses, then to their particulars; and on a probable presumption that those calamities which are like to befall this kingdome may be borne the better, when they come sweetned with the name of the whole Parliament, then when transacted and determined onely in a particular Committee.