TO

My most Sacred Sovereign

Charles II,

Most Royal Sir,

Since the sunset of that glorious martyr, your father of ever-blessed memory Charles I, who was executed in 1649 during the English Civil War, and Astraea's original: "Astræa"; the Greek goddess of justice who, according to myth, was the last immortal to leave the earth as the Golden Age ended. Her "flight" here symbolizes the loss of justice and legal order during the Interregnum flight with him to heaven, there has been