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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

CHAPTER XV
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Seymour presented the address; and the King promised to do what was asked.

Some days however elapsed before the proclamation appeared, [536] Ludlow had time to make his escape, and again hid himself in his Alpine retreat, never again to emerge.

English travellers are still taken to see his house close to the lake, and his tomb in a church among the vineyards which overlook the little town of Vevay.

On the house was formerly legible an inscription purporting that to him to whom God is a father every land is a fatherland; [537] and the epitaph on the tomb still attests the feelings with which the stern old Puritan to the last regarded the people of Ireland and the House of Stuart.
Tories and Whigs had concurred, or had affected to concur, in paying honour to Walker and in putting a brand on Ludlow.

But the feud between the two parties was more bitter than ever.


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