. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . in tho field in his ownperson, with his sword in his hand against him, and all others. What-ever crimes may be laid to the charge of Cromwell, no one can believethat he was the foolish braggart which these words implj. That lie waaan oppressor; that lie received bribes ; that he had made a great estatelor liimself by extortion, were no doubt true. Some of the public plunder * See the curious extracts from the Cotton MS. in Ellis, Second Series, vol. ii. p. 120,+ BUis,
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . in tho field in his ownperson, with his sword in his hand against him, and all others. What-ever crimes may be laid to the charge of Cromwell, no one can believethat he was the foolish braggart which these words implj. That lie waaan oppressor; that lie received bribes ; that he had made a great estatelor liimself by extortion, were no doubt true. Some of the public plunder * See the curious extracts from the Cotton MS. in Ellis, Second Series, vol. ii. p. 120,+ BUis, Second Scries, vol. ii. D. 1C5. J State Papers, vol. ;. p. 628, 1541).] HIS ATTAINDER. 42S Btuck to his fingers. He made aa free witli the lands and moneys of thekings subjects, as he did with the wooden house in Throgmorton-street,belonging to old Stows father, which house he wanted out of the way whenhe built his own mansion : and so moved it upon rollers twenty-two feet, andBcized the land upon which it stood.* Cranmer said with truth, though notwith firmneas, that he thought no king of England had ever such a servant. Qneen Catbsrico HoTrard. Frcsi a Pairitisg by Vaiider Wora. but if he was a traitor, he was glad it was discovered. Though Cromwell was unscrupulous in carrying out the cruel judgments of hismaster and his base parliaments, he knew in his own case what was thejustice which an Englishman had a right to demand. In his last letter toHenry, from the Tower, he says that he had been informed by the honourablepersonages who came to him, that mine offences being by honest andprobable witness proved, I was by your honourable lords of the TJpper House,and the worshipful and discreet Commons of your nether House, convictedand attainted. Gracious sovereign, when I heard them I said, as now 1say, that I am a subject and born to obey laws, and know that the trial of all laws only consisteth in honest and profitable vritness Albeit, laws be laws. The principle of attainder,
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