November 2, 1642
November 2, 1642
The story as it unfolds:

THE ARMIES RACE FOR LONDON AS PARTS OF PARLIAMENT GO WOBBLY AND PRAY FOR PEACE. EDMUND OPENS A DOOR AND AS QUICKLY CLOSES IT.


From the Journal of the House of Commons

Address to the King.

Mr. Pym reports, That the Earl of Northumberland reported, That the Committee for the Defence of the Kingdom, had considered of the present State of the Kingdom; and had considered of some humble Address to be made to his Majesty, for the Sparing of the Effusion of more Blood: But they would do nothing, until they had first acquainted the Lord General, and the Members of both Houses in the Army. That they had received a Letter from the Earl of Essex: The which was read: And that the Lords thought it fit to refer it to the Committee for the Safety of the Kingdom, to prepare an humble Address to his Majesty for an Accommodation, if this House shall so think fit.

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Ten days after a battle with no clear victor between a monarch bent on tyrannical rule in the manner of a Spaniard or a Caesar and a people determined to preserve the traditional liberties of England, Parliament has agreed to negotiate with King Charles “to settle the Peace of the Kingdom” and “prevent further bloodshed.”

The initiative, proposed October 29 in the House of Lords, received the consent of the House of Commons today, with the understanding that preparations for “the Defence of the Protestant Religion, the Privileges of Parliament, the Laws and Liberties of the Subject, shall be prosecuted with all Vigour.” At the same time, Parliament’s longstanding demand that the King take down his standard prior to any negotiation has been abandoned.

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From the section: Histories

In Camp, after the first day's March, some twenty miles south of Warwick. I have a letter from Anne; she has obtained blankets &c from Mother and the wife of Sgt Kilmister has Helped with Cooking, and some Cleaning; father Well, she says.

She asked me of America, at which I immediately Experienced the unease regret that occurred when I invited her to ask me of it. It may be in all Innocence. But I do not know what she knows. I do not know what anyone here knows. What all know, at least, is this, which is what Winthrop and the others wrote: Sarah taken/murdered, Mystic, the harrying of the Pequots, the Mohegans, &c.

But I do not know if it’s known here, these things: that is, why I uprooted us from the Bay, and to Lord Say’s settlement in Connecticut (kate); that I brewed beer; that the miscarriages God’s just judgment on me but why would He so afflict her; that the day Sarah taken I could not be found for six Hours and

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