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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, A charge with Prince Rupert. (search)
the L House of Rimmon, as he called Parliament, to hang him, would have swung the Bible triumphantly to his neck by a ribbon, to show the unscriptural character of their doings. Charles himself, in one of his early addresses to his army, denounced the opposing party as Brownists, Anabaptists, and Atheists, and in his address to the city of London pleaded in favor of his own godly, learned, and painfull preachers. Every royal regiment had its chaplain, including in the service such men as Pearson and Jeremy Taylor, and they had prayers before battle, as regularly and seriously as their opponents. After solemn prayers at the head of every division, I led my part away, wrote the virtuous Sir Bevill Grenvill to his wife, after the battle of Bradock. Rupert, in like manner, had prayers before every division at Marston Moor. To be sure, we cannot always vouch for the quality of these prayers, when the chaplain happened to be out of the way and the colonel was his substitute. O Lord,