JOHN HAMPDEN.
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Born 1594.—Died 1643.—James I.—Charles I.
This brave gentleman, born at Great Hampden, in Buckinghamshire, distinguished as a patriot, was the first to refuse payment of the shipmoney levied by Charles I. He was one of the foremost of those who reasonably opposed the king’s unconstitutional acts. He was killed at the battle of Chalgrove, near Oxford.