The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . - furnishedseventeen thousand. At Ipswich all the freemen signed except W^arwick all the male inhabitants who had attained the age of six-teen signed, except two Papists and tvv^o Quakers. At Taunton, wherethe memory of the Bloody Circuit was fresh, every man who could write ^ The best, indeed the only good, account of these debates is given by LHermitage, j^^^ ^-1696. He says, very truly : La difference nest quune dispute de mots, le droit quon a a unachose selon les loix estant aussy bon quil puisse estre. 1696. WILLIAM
The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . - furnishedseventeen thousand. At Ipswich all the freemen signed except W^arwick all the male inhabitants who had attained the age of six-teen signed, except two Papists and tvv^o Quakers. At Taunton, wherethe memory of the Bloody Circuit was fresh, every man who could write ^ The best, indeed the only good, account of these debates is given by LHermitage, j^^^ ^-1696. He says, very truly : La difference nest quune dispute de mots, le droit quon a a unachose selon les loix estant aussy bon quil puisse estre. 1696. WILLIAM THE THIRD 2617 gave in his adhesion to the government. All the churclies and all themeeting houses in the town were crowded, as they had never beencrowded before, w ith people who came to thank God for having pre-served him whom the\ fondlx- called William the Deliverer. Of all thecounties of England Lancashire was the most Jacobitical. Yet Lanca-shire furnisherl \ii\v thousand signatures. Of all the irreat tow^ns of. ^1 ^s^ MEDALS ON Tin: ASSASSINATION PLOT England Norwich was the most Jacobitical. The magistrates of thatcity were supposed to be in the interest of the exiled dynasty. Thenonjurors were numerous, and had, just before the discover} of the plot,seemed to be in unusual spirits and ventured to take unusual of the chief divines of the schism had preached a sermon therewhich gave rise to strange suspicions. He had taken for his text theverse in which the Prophet Jeremiah announced that the day of 26i8 HISTORY OF ENGLAND chap, xxi vcntjeance was come, that the sword would be diiinlc w ith blood, that theLord God of Hosts had a sacrifice in the north countrx bv the ri\crluiphrates. Very soon it was known that, at the time when this dis-course was delivered, swords had actually been sharpening, under thedirection of Barchu and Parkyns, for a bloody sacrifice on the northbank of the river Thames. The indignation of the common people ofNorwich was not to be r
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