[1] The sixtenth of Maie was proclamation made, that all Frenchmen,A proclama|tion for the auoiding of the French out of New|hauen. being within the towne of Newha|uen, otherwise called Haure de Grace, as well men, women, as children, should depart the towne, be|twixt that present time and six of the clocke at night on the next daie being mondaie, except surgians, apothecaries, bakers, butchers, smiths, masons, lock|smiths, carpenters, and other such artificers, vpon paine to be attached as good and lawfull prisoners, and their goods to be confiscat. By the tenor of these seuerall proclamations it maie appeare,The lord lieutenants procéeding to be gathered by his procla|mations. that the lord lieutenant procéeded nothing rigorouslie against the French, in remoouing them foorth of the towne; al|though it maie be, that some which had to deale there|in, dealt hardlie inough with them. But in such cases there must of necessitie be some diligent héedfulnesse vsed, for otherwise in such packing away, some might peraduenture carie with them too much, & others too litle. But howsoeuer this mater was handled, true it is, that it was thought expedient to auoid the French out of the towne. For after the duke of Guise was slaine before Orleance, and that the parties were a|gréed, as by edict of the pacification published in March last past it maie appeare, the whole deuises as well of them of the one religion as the other tended to this end,The English|men for their owne su [...]rti [...] were forced to double their watch nightly how to recouer the towne of Newha|uen out of the Englishmens hands, either by prac|tise or open force. And such intelligence was vsed be|twixt the French within that towne, and the eni|mies without to bring this to passe, that the Eng|lish could assure themselues no more of the one than of the other, and so were driuen for their owne safe|ties, to rid the towne of so doubtfull partakers.