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Excerpt from A History of the Rev. Hugh Peters, A. M: Arch-Intendant of the Prerogative Court of Doctors Commons, Member of the Celebrated Assembly of Divines at the Savoy, Westminster, and Principal Chaplain to the Lord Protector and to the Lords and House of Commons, From the Year 1640 to 1660
And both sides, by their own laws, proclaimed their opponent, traitors, rebels and tyrants and both Sides suffered as traitors, rebels, and tyrants, according to the law of power.
While religion and the constitution gave place to self-defence and mutual destruction, archbishop Laud and his clergy were employed in the pulpits and in the fields of battle, to defend the royal party; and the Rev. Hugh Peters and his puritan clergy were em ployed in the same way to defend the parliamentary party.
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