The National Archives
Education
Civil War
Simplified transcript
Extract from a letter written by a lady wanting peace, 17 October 1645
(Catalogue ref: SP 16/511/27)
[Extra explanations in square brackets.]
I hope a general peace is at hand. Some are unwilling to have it, but all the sense I have tells me it must be so. I trust you think the same. Although I wonder, I hear no more talk of peace in these parts except that your master [the king] and those about him want it, and that something had been done. But I fear too many are against this blessing. Were there any difference [between the two sides] in this confusion, it might be debated, but I think the time [for fighting] has past, after so much going wrong. It is not fit for me to say any more, but I pray for peace and will be happy with any kind of peace we can get, …
