Sir Bevill (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Arthur Christopher Thynne
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ISBN: 9781331220497
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Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Excerpt from Sir Bevill In the Third Parliament of Charles the First Bevill Granville sat for Launceston, and upheld his friend Sir John Eliot in defence of the privileges of the House. With sorrow he saw him sent for the first time to the Tower for displeasing the King, and with tears of joy in his eyes welcomed his release - demanded by Parliament - and hastened to join him at Cuddenbeck. The disaster at Rochelle and the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham had stirred the mind of England, though there was more of relief than consternation at the latter event, for the Duke had incurred the bitter hatred of the people. "Thine enemy has fallen, John," said Bevill, "whether by the hand of a lunatic or no matters but little; few, besides the King, will mourn his death, yet as a man he had the merit of courage - but so has a dog for the matter of that," he added. "Nay, friend, his was no dog courage," replied Eliot. "Sure I had scant cause to love him of late years, but it was not mere animal courage that made him wait on that fatal causeway, and bring up the rear at Rochelle, amid the storm of shot and fierce onset of a victorious enemy maddened to vengeance. It was true courage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.