Note 47 — THE ANTIQUITIES OF BRIDGNORTH. PART II.

The Cambridge Professor of History, though a strong advocate of the cause of liberty in opposition to prerogative, thus writes of Cromwell:—“Cromwell had to subdue not only the Royalists, but the Presbyterians; and this not merely by force, but by the most extraordinary performance of cant and hypocrisy that human nature ever exhibited.”—Vol. 1, Lect. xvii.

(See Vide Appendix G.)