. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . the whippingdiscipline, that he would have even had Hampden whipped! , he writes to Laud, is a great brother [Puritan], andthe very genius of that nation of people leads them always to oppose,both civilly and ecclesiastically, all that authority ever ordains forthem. But in good faith, were they rightly served, they should bewhipped home into their right wits ; and much beholden they shouldbe to any that would thoroughly take pains with them in that is tolerable proo
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . the whippingdiscipline, that he would have even had Hampden whipped! , he writes to Laud, is a great brother [Puritan], andthe very genius of that nation of people leads them always to oppose,both civilly and ecclesiastically, all that authority ever ordains forthem. But in good faith, were they rightly served, they should bewhipped home into their right wits ; and much beholden they shouldbe to any that would thoroughly take pains with them in that is tolerable proof that Strafford seriously meant what he saidin this passage—perhaps had actually advised it; for he againwrites :— In truth I still wish Mr. Hampden, and others to hislikeness, were well whipped into their right senses. And if the rod beso used that it smart not, I am the more sorry. The poet Burnshas finely observed upon the effect that would be produced could wesee ourselves as others see us : we may vary and somewhat differentlyapply the thought in observing—Oh ! that our statesmen could but. > ^.V;-• • 1952.—CoL John Lilburne. 1953.—Cromwell dissolving the Long Parliament. (From a Painting by Benjamin West.)
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