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The Rise of the Democracy

CHAPTER IX
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That this sentiment of neutrality was common to the greater mass of the working classes is obvious from the simultaneous appearance of the club men in different parts of the country with their motto: 'If you take our cattle, we will give you battle.'"-- G.P.

GOOCH, _History of Democratic Ideas in the Seventeenth Century_.
[57] See _Memorial of English Affairs_.
[58] "By its injudicious treatment of the most popular man in England, Parliament was arraying against itself a force which only awaited an opportunity to sweep it away."-- G.P.

GOOCH, _History of Democratic Ideas in the Seventeenth Century_.
[59] "So die the Leveller corporals.

Strong they, after their sort, for the liberties of England; resolute to the very death."-- CARLYLE.
[60] "Then ensued a scene, the like of which had in all probability never been witnessed in an English court of justice, and was never again to be witnessed till the seven bishops were freed by the verdict of a jury from the rage of James II."-- S.R.

GARDINER, _History of the Commonwealth_.
[61] Professor C.H.Firth, Lilburne in _Dict.Nat.


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