Then said Mr. False-Peace: 'Gentlemen, and you now appointed to be
my judges, I acknowledge that my name is Mr. Peace; but that my
name is False-Peace I utterly deny. If your honours shall please
to send for any that do intimately know me, or for the midwife that
laid my mother of me, or for the gossips that were at my
christening, they will, any or all of them, prove that my name is
not False-Peace, but Peace. Wherefore I cannot plead to this
indictment, forasmuch as my name is not inserted therein; and as is
my true name, so are also my conditions. I was always a man that
loved to live at quiet, and what I loved myself, that I thought
others might love also. Wherefore, when I saw any of my neighbours
to labour under a disquieted mind, I endeavoured to help them what
I could; and instances of this good temper of mine many I could
give; as,

'1. When, at the beginning, our town of Mansoul did decline the
ways of Shaddai, they, some of them, afterwards began to have
disquieting reflections upon themselves for what they had done; but
I, as one troubled to see them disquieted, presently sought out
means to get them quiet again.

'2. When the ways of the old world, and of Sodom, were in fashion,
if anything happened to molest those that were for the customs of
the present times, I laboured to make them quiet again, and to
cause them to act without molestation.

'3. To come nearer home: when the wars fell out between Shaddai
and Diabolus, if at any time I saw any of the town of Mansoul
afraid of destruction, I often used, by some way, device,
invention, or other, to labour to bring them to peace again.