The ready and easie way to establish a free Commonwealth, and the excellence thereof compared with the inconveniences and dangers of readmitting Kingship in this Nation. The Author, J. M. Wherein, by reason of the Printers haste, the Errata not coming in time, it is desired that the following faults may be amended. Page 9, line 32, for _the Areopagus_ read _of Areopagus_. P. 10, l. 3, for full Senate, true Senate; l. 4, for fits, is the whole Aristocracy; l. 7, for Provincial States, States of every City. P. 17, l. 29, for _cite_, _citie_; 1. 30, for _left_, _felt_. Sold by _Livewel Chapman_, at the Crown, in Pope's-head Alley. The calmness of the blind bard in thus issuing corrections to his hastily-printed pamphlet on behalf of a falling cause, excites our admiration, and gives us an exalted idea of his moral courage. In two months, as might have been expected, he was a proscribed fugitive, sheltering his honoured head from the pursuit of Charles's myrmidons in some secret hiding-place in Westminster, whilst his works, by order of the House, were being burned by the common hangman. The lawyers were not slow in perceiving the way the wind was blowing, and set their sails accordingly--if we may take the action of one Mr. Nicholas Bacon, as shown in the following advertisement, as any index of the feelings of his fellows:-- Whereas one Capt. _Gouge_, a witness examined against the late Kings Majesty, in those Records stiled himself of the Honorable Society of _Grays_ Inne. These are to give notice that the said _Gouge_, being long sought for, was providentially discovered in a disguise, seized in that Society, and now in custody, being apprehended by the help of some spectators that knew him, viewing of a Banner with his Majesties arms, set up just at the same time of His Majesties landing, on an high Tower in the same Society, by _Nicholas Bacon_, Esq., a Member thereof, as a memorial of so great a deliverance, and testimony of his constant loyalty to His Majesty, and that the said _Gouge_ upon examination confessed, That he was never admitted not so much as a Clerk of that Society.--_Mercurius Politicus_, June 7, 1660. Whilst all London was throwing up caps for the restored monarch, and England seemed so glad that he himself wondered how he could have been persuaded to stop away so long, let us catch the lost luggage of a poor cavalier, who has just followed his royal master from his long banishment, and turn out its contents for our reader, in order to show that even ruined old courtiers carried more impedimenta than the famous "shirt, towel, and piece of soap" of our renowned Napier. The _Mercurius Publicus_ is now our mine, in which we sink a shaft, and come up with this fossil advertisement, which bears date July 5th, 1660:--