Anglia Rediviva applauds those Noble Souls in the House of Lords, and in the Commons, who – guided, as our Guardians, by a Touching Regard for our Best Interests – have pleaded for and Obtained, an Embassy to King Charles I to Treat for Peace.

Indeed! – and Come, let us Join, and Cohere with the Earls of Northumberland, and Pembroke, and Holland, and various Commoners, and their much-esteemed Friends and Patrons in the City – and with a Single pair of Hands, beat our Swords to Ploughshares; and with a Single set of Lungs pray Boldly, and Loudly – indeed, let us Bray from the rooftops for Peace, that Blessed state for which no Price is too High!

Let us, with Northumberland, and Pembroke, and Holland, and those of the Commons, and those in the City – agree that Industry and Commerce – the sinews and lifeblood of England – is best Maintained and Regulated by a Sanhedrin of Crown, Courtier, and Great Merchant; that what to buy, and what to sell, and the price of each, is best determined by Monopolies: let us agree, and we shall have peace!

Let us, with the Patrons of Peace, agree that the scheme of THOROUGH – the great work begun by Strafford and Laud, the most perfect Servants of Charles – must be continued and perfected: until the King’s arbitrary Will, and that alone, is Supreme in England, that there is no Law but the King, because He is the Law, as the representative of Christ on earth, and we but Children, playing beneath his Robes, singing happy Songs, and playing innocent Games: let us agree, and we shall have Peace!

Let us, for the sake of Peace, surrender the Freedom we have in Christ, the Liberty of individual Conscience won on Golgotha, and ratified by the Empty Tomb: let us deny Reason and the Spirit, and Submit to Priests, and fill our Empty souls with their Babblings, and Rote prayers, and Ceremonials – let us return to the dark night of Papacy, then we shall have Peace!

And let us, with the King, and with the Partisans of Peace – let us denounce, and name as seditious, and disturbers of the peace, anyone who is grieved by the dishonor of the Kingdom; anyone who objects to the unjust oppressions of the subject; anyone devoted to morality or civil honesty; anyone who maintains the good laws of the land; anyone who stands up for any public interest, for good order and government; anyone that crosses the courtiers, the arrogant priests, the thievish monopolists, the lewd nobility; anyone who cannot endure blasphemous oaths, ribald conversation; profane scoffs; Sabbath breaking, derision of the word of God; anyone who respects a sermon, modest habits and conversation – yeah, let us name them Puritans, and enemies of the King, and His all-powerful, absolute will; let us name them seditious, factious hypocrites, ambitious disturbers of the public peace, and pests of the Kingdom – let us harry these from the land, and then we will have peace!

The generous people of England are the best subjects to those princes that command them as Free Men, not as slaves. But they are, and ever have been, the most untameable and invincible people in defense of their Freedoms against those great lords, from the Norman usurpers on, that scorn to allow them Liberty.

To Treat for Peace with this King, is a Fool’s errand. If the Parliament has no Stomach for this Task we have undertaken, it should turn its Management over to those that Do.