. Cheshire, its traditions and history, including a record of the rise and progress of freemasonry in this ancient province . from areligious standpoint, and from the view of a churchman of that period, evidenceda mind which was far too wide and broad and deep to be influenced by minoror petty considerations in religion and pohtics. The story of the Stuart kings of England is one long record of strugglesand turmoil between prince and people. In the outcome, the people, aftergoing through throes of civil war, and an interregnum filled in with thepowerful personality of Cromwell, triumphed, and
. Cheshire, its traditions and history, including a record of the rise and progress of freemasonry in this ancient province . from areligious standpoint, and from the view of a churchman of that period, evidenceda mind which was far too wide and broad and deep to be influenced by minoror petty considerations in religion and pohtics. The story of the Stuart kings of England is one long record of strugglesand turmoil between prince and people. In the outcome, the people, aftergoing through throes of civil war, and an interregnum filled in with thepowerful personality of Cromwell, triumphed, and laid the foundations of thehberties we now enjoy. Of one of these Stuart kings (Charles II.) it is said, He never said a foohsh thing and never did a wise one. Of another(James II.), that he had a big head, a slobbering tongue, goggle eyes, a wantof personal dignity, w^hile he displayed coarse buffonery, pedantry, and con-temptible cowardice in his deaUngs with men. The principal features of the reign of the last of the Stuart kings (James II.)embraced on the part of the people a firm decision for the maintenance of the. :/L J^J 9^ru^-^ Mn^ ^it>^yC J/^e L .Mcr of Q) u^^r -> TJ
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