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... original Painting in the Authors Possession . OCromwell ( Fac - simile of his Signature and Seal to the Warrant for Beheading Charles 1 : Published by John Warren Old Bond Street . AND HIS TIMES . BY THOMAS CROMWELL . ( Great.
... original Painting in the Authors Possession . OCromwell ( Fac - simile of his Signature and Seal to the Warrant for Beheading Charles 1 : Published by John Warren Old Bond Street . AND HIS TIMES . BY THOMAS CROMWELL . ( Great.
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... CHARLES , TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF CROMWELL'S FORMAL OPPOSITION TO HIS GOVERNMENT . Political Retrospect - Cromwell's first recorded Speech in the House - Charles's Dissolution of his Third Parliament , and Despotic Conduct - Cromwell ...
... CHARLES , TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF CROMWELL'S FORMAL OPPOSITION TO HIS GOVERNMENT . Political Retrospect - Cromwell's first recorded Speech in the House - Charles's Dissolution of his Third Parliament , and Despotic Conduct - Cromwell ...
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... Charles erects his Standard at Nottingham . - Page 77 to 117 . CHAPTER IV . FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE CIVIL WAR TO THE PARLIAMENT'S ORDINANCE FOR NEW MODELLING THEIR ARMY . Cromwell's Activity at this Period - Notices of him by ...
... Charles erects his Standard at Nottingham . - Page 77 to 117 . CHAPTER IV . FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE CIVIL WAR TO THE PARLIAMENT'S ORDINANCE FOR NEW MODELLING THEIR ARMY . Cromwell's Activity at this Period - Notices of him by ...
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... Charles - Altered tone , and increased violences , of the Army - Cromwell's danger from his continued efforts in the King's favour - Perseve- rance in the same efforts , and intrepid conduct at Ware- Anecdote The King's flight from ...
... Charles - Altered tone , and increased violences , of the Army - Cromwell's danger from his continued efforts in the King's favour - Perseve- rance in the same efforts , and intrepid conduct at Ware- Anecdote The King's flight from ...
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... Charles - The King's Final Division from that Sect - Crom- well Marches to meet the Scots - Huntington's Conspiracy ... Charles- Cromwell's Conduct relative to them -Historical Error cor- rected - Lord Clarendon's Panegyric upon Charles ...
... Charles - The King's Final Division from that Sect - Crom- well Marches to meet the Scots - Huntington's Conspiracy ... Charles- Cromwell's Conduct relative to them -Historical Error cor- rected - Lord Clarendon's Panegyric upon Charles ...
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Page 292 - The Lord at thy right hand: Shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies : He shall wound the heads over many countries.
Page 121 - I raised such men as had the fear of God before them, and made some conscience of what they did, and from that day forward, I must say to you, they were never beaten, and wherever they were engaged against the enemy they beat continually...
Page 121 - 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 23 - That as to dispute what God may do is blasphemy, ... so is it sedition in subjects to dispute what a king may do in the height of his power.
Page 269 - And if he were not the greatest king, if he were without some parts and qualities which have made some kings great and happy, no other prince was ever unhappy who was possessed of half his virtues and endowments, and so much without any kind of vice.
Page 89 - I vainly thought myself a courtly young gentleman ; for we courtiers valued ourselves much upon our good clothes. I came one morning into the House well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor : his linen was plain and not very clean, and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little...
Page 342 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Page 140 - III. We shall with the same sincerity, reality and constancy, in our several vocations, endeavour with our estates and lives mutually to preserve the rights and privileges of the Parliaments, and the liberties of the kingdoms...
Page 402 - It is an easy thing to talk of Necessities when men create Necessities : would not the Lord Protector make himself great and his family great ? Doth not he make these Necessities ? And then he will come upon the People with his argument of Necessity !" — This were something hard indeed. But I have not yet known what it is to " make Necessities," whatsoever the thoughts or judgments of men are.
Page 397 - I HAVE CAUSED A STOP TO BE PUT TO YOUR ENTRANCE INTO THE PARLIAMENT HOUSE.