Social England, Vol. 4: A Record of the Progress of the People in Religion, Laws, Learning, Arts, Industry, Commerce, Science, Literature and Manners, ... the Present Day; Section I (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Social England, Vol. 4: A Record of the Progress of the People in Religion, Laws, Learning, Arts, Industry, Commerce, Science, Literature and Manners, From the Earliest Times to the Present Day; Section I

On the scaffold on Tower Hill he told the crowd that he had always believed Parliaments in England to be the happy constitution of the kingdom and nation, and the best means, under God, to make the king and his people happy and he further asked whether it were well that the beginning of the people's happiness should be written in tears of blood. Refusing to bind his eyes. He, after a prayer, Spread forth his hands as a Sign to the executioner, and the axe ended his life. (dr. S. R. Gardiner in the Dictionary of National Biography.)

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