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whether Papist or Protestant . His fate will be sensibly felt by a great many , who had no kindness for the cause he died in / ' History , p . 61 .
Though , as to the actors in these busy scenes , " their tears '' as well as " their little triumphs" have been so long over , one cannot help regretting tkat such a life should have been sacrificed oft a paltry question of hereditary
rig " I ht . find an anonymous writer , seasonably , though vainly pleading , at this time , for the exercise of royal cleniency , against the " importunate
clamours of the blood-thirsty , who never cease to call out for slaughter , forfeitures , attainders and decent executions . " He asks , * ' Can it be of any great comfort to the Royal Family , to think how much blood their
succession hath cost the nation ? Will it be a delightful prospect to have the heads and limbs of their subjects thrown in their eyes , as they pass through any town in their dominions ? Is the reformation of our cale ? idar to be made
by blood , and the terms and seasons to be distinguished by the several tragical executions ? " This writer abruptly lays down his pen , struck with horror at the news , that in spite of the visible and almost universal inclination
of all ranks of people , in favour of their countrymen , the impeached lords are to be executed . " See * ' An Argument to prove the Affections of the People of England to be the best Security of the Government . " 1715 .
The first and second Kings of the House of Hanover , like their cousin Charles II ., appear , in the treatment of lifeless enemies , to have emulated the last of the Tudors . Archbishop
Perefixe , in his " History of Henry the Great , ( p . 262 , ) says of Elizabeth , to whom Henry had sent "the Marcshall of Byron" on a complimentary embassy ,
** This Queen endeavoured by all means possible , to make known to the French her greatness and power . One day holding Byron by the hand , she shewed him a great nun ) her of heads planted on the Tower of London ,
telling him that in that manner they punished rebels in England , and recounting to him the reasons she had to put to death the Earl of Essex , whom she had once so tenderly loved . " It appears that " the Earl of Essex's
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head" made one of the " great number" which adorned the palace and amused the leisure of this pitiless bat politic despot . The modern History of Africa has exhibited similar royal amusements . Thus Atkins , in his " Voyage to Guinea , " ( p . 80 , ) describes a chief , to whom he was introduced in 1721 , who had " paved the entrance of his house " with " Dutchmen ' s skulk . " He afterwards , indeed , " put them all into a chest , with some brandy , pipes and tobacco , and buried them , " observing
to his guest , ** It is time that all malice should depart , and the putting up a few necessaries with the corpses , such as they loved , is our way of respecting the deceased . " Atkins adds , "The under jaw-bones of these
Dutchmen , he shewed me . strung , and hanging on a tree in the court-yard . "
Snelgrave , in his " Account of Guinea , " ( p . 31 , ) relating his visit to the King of Dahomy in 1727 , adds , " la our way to the king ' s gate , we saw two large stages , on wliich were heaped a great number of dead men ' s
heads , that afforded no pleasing sight or smell . " Yet , probably , his Majesty of Dahomy , was of the same opinion with Charles IX . That prince , according to Voltaire , feasting his eyes on the body of Coligni , if hanged in chains at the gallows of Montfaucon , " replied to " one of his courtiers , " who
" complained of the stench of the corpse , " that " a dead enemy smells sweet . " Thus symbolized the royal houses of Europe and Africa in these
generous triumphs over vanquished enemies . P . lf ) 8 , col . 1 . "One Mr . Aaron Pitts . " He is mentioned in ' * The Western Inquisition" ( p . 183 , ) as luring" " betrayed the conversation" of " his kinsman , Mr . Isaac Chilling , and represented him under an ill character . " ter .
hid . col . 2 . " Withers . " It appears in JVest . Inqitis ., ( p . 1 1 , ) that << r Mr . John Withers , well known by his excellent writings , " was chosen , in 1 705 , one of the four ministers of " the Dissenting Congregations in Exon . " There is a pretty full account of him by the late Dr . Toulmin in your IVth Volume , pp . 250 , 251 , and the part
that he took in the " Trinitarian Controversy at Exeter" is described by your correspondent J . JB . in your Xllth
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Notes on the Memoirs of Mr . «/ , Tox . 275
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1821, page 275, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2500/page/19/
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