When asked what he meant by the Cause, Axtell replied "I mean that Cause which we were encouraged to, and engaged in under the parliament, which was for common right and freedom, and against the Surplice and Common-Prayer Book: and I tell you, that Surplice and Common-Prayer Book shall not stand long in England, for it is - not of God" (Howell & Cobbett 1816, p. 1259) Howell, Thomas Jones; Cobbett, William (1816), A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the earliest period to the year 1783, vol. 5, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, p. 1259
Greaves1986, pp. 3–4. Greaves, Richard L. (1986), Deliver Us from Evil: The Radical Underground in Britain, 1660-1663, Oxford University Press, pp. 3–4, ISBN978-0-19-503985-6