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f * ressf and the end of wjiich was mojSt uncertain ; all the horrors of civil war were before them > and they made , in the famous ' Remonstrance , ' an appeal , which , had Charles not been utterly infatuated , must have been accepted by him with eagerness . They were willing to pass over in silence his manifold acts of treachery , cruelty , and falsehood : they offered him , unquestioned , all the power and wealth which the law had ever allotted for the support of the dignity , office , or pleasure of the crown ; but the man was wholly blinded by selfishness to the real position in which he stood with regard to the country , and in the sword which was suspended as by a hair above his head , he fancied he could discern an instrument with which to enforce the slavery of millions . The answer to the respectful' remonstrance of his faithful Commons , was an order , in violation of every law on the subject , for the arrest and impeachment of the principal leaders of the opposition : this was in the month of January , 1642 , and this may well be considered as the commencement of the war between Charles Stuart and the English people ; and it was also the era of Hampden's short but brilliant course of active
exertion . Accepting a compiand in the army , he enlisted his tenants and friends into his little band : wearing the colours of his family , the green , which betokens hope , and carrying at their head their leader ' s motto , ' Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum , ' they followed him to the field where he fought and died for the good cause of human amelioration . He met his death in a manner worthy of him , not in an act of technical duty but in one of generous choice . * Some of his friends would have dissuaded him from adventuring his person with the cavalry , on a serice which did not properly belong to him , wishing him rather to leave it to those officers of lesser note , under whose immediate command
the picquets were . x > ut wherever danger was , and hope or service to the cause , there Hampden ever felt that his duty lay /—P . 431 . He put himself at the head of the attack , and in the first charge he received his death-wounds . f His head bending down , and his hands resting on his horse ' s neck , he was seen riding off the field before the action was done , a thing , says Clarendon , he never used to do , and from which it was concluded he was hurt . " It is a tradition , that he was seen first moving in the direction of his father-in-law ' s house at Pyrton ; there he had in youth married the first wife of his love , and thither he - would have gone to die . But Kupert ' s cavalry were covering the plain between . Turning his horse ' s head , therefore , he rode back across the grounds of Hazeley in his way to Thame . At the brook which divides the parishes , he paused awhile ; but it being impossible for him in his wounded state to remount , if he had alighted to turn his horse over ^ he suddenly summoned his strength , clapped spurs , and cleared the leap * In great pain , and almost fainting , he reached Thame , and was conducted to the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1832, page 448, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1816/page/16/
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