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Page 111
... horse . ' In his furnished lodging ; ' in a room upstairs ; ' his door stood open : stepping softly up , the troopers found him leaning on his elbow , dictating to his clerk ' A De- ' claration of the free and well - affected People of ...
... horse . ' In his furnished lodging ; ' in a room upstairs ; ' his door stood open : stepping softly up , the troopers found him leaning on his elbow , dictating to his clerk ' A De- ' claration of the free and well - affected People of ...
Page 112
... horse ' to seize it , to trample it out , and lay the ring- leaders under lock and key . Hardly anywhere could it get the length of fighting : too happy if it could but gallop and hide . In Yorkshire , there was some appearance , and a ...
... horse ' to seize it , to trample it out , and lay the ring- leaders under lock and key . Hardly anywhere could it get the length of fighting : too happy if it could but gallop and hide . In Yorkshire , there was some appearance , and a ...
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... Horse - stealing : ' Pen- ruddock and Grove , stanch Royalists both and gallant men , were beheaded ; several were hanged ; a great many ' sent to Barbadoes ; ' — and this Royalist conflagration too , which should have blazed all over ...
... Horse - stealing : ' Pen- ruddock and Grove , stanch Royalists both and gallant men , were beheaded ; several were hanged ; a great many ' sent to Barbadoes ; ' — and this Royalist conflagration too , which should have blazed all over ...
Page 115
... horse and foot , levied and kept in readiness for the occasion ; especially troops of horse . In- volving , of course , new expense ; which we decide that the Plotting Royalists , who occasion it , shall pay . On all Royalist ...
... horse and foot , levied and kept in readiness for the occasion ; especially troops of horse . In- volving , of course , new expense ; which we decide that the Plotting Royalists , who occasion it , shall pay . On all Royalist ...
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... horse and foot , at their beck ; coercing Royalist Revolt , and other Anarchy ; decimating ' it , that is , levying Ten per - cent upon the Income of it ; summon- ing it , cross - questioning it , —peremptorily signifying to it that it ...
... horse and foot , at their beck ; coercing Royalist Revolt , and other Anarchy ; decimating ' it , that is , levying Ten per - cent upon the Income of it ; summon- ing it , cross - questioning it , —peremptorily signifying to it that it ...
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Page 215 - Mercy and truth are met together ; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
Page 152 - Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Page 215 - I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly. Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him ; that glory may dwell in our land.
Page 217 - There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early. The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
Page 217 - He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth : he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder ; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
Page 151 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away ; blessed be the Name of the Lord ! — "His Highness," says Harvey,3 "being at Hampton Court, sickened a little before the Lady Elizabeth died.
Page 16 - are most of them old decayed serving-men, and tapsters, and such kind of fellows ; and,' said I, ' their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons and persons of quality; do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen, that have honour and courage and resolution in them...
Page 206 - I have known in my experience abominable murders quitted ; and to see men lose their lives for petty matters ! This is a thing that God will reckon for ; and I wish it may not lie upon this nation a day longer than you have an opportunity to give a remedy; and I hope I shall cheerfully join with you in it.
Page 205 - I think I may say it, I have as eminent Judges in this land as have been had, as the Nation has had, for these many years. [Hale and, others; yea,f\ — Truly I could be particular, as to the executive part [of it], as to the administration [of the Law] ; but that would trouble you.
Page 139 - Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.