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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 34 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 12 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 0 Browse Search
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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 8 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 0 Browse Search
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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, John Biddle (search)
force, their persecuting law was not enforced, and for several years lay nearly unregarded. After the death of the king, chiefly through the representations of Cromwell, a milder policy was adopted in respect of religious dissentients, by which Mr. Biddle in some measure benefited. He was still in custody under his original comhe Protector Cromwell happily led him to interfere on his behalf, and prevent matters from being carried to this extremity. The temper of the times considered, Cromwell had imbibed more just ideas of religious liberty; and in many instances shewed himself not indisposed to act upon them, where political interests and the establihe little flock of attached adherents whom he had collected in London, there were some both able and willing to minister to his necessities. In the year 1658, Cromwell suffered a writ of habeas corpus to be granted by the Upper Bench Court, as it was then called, by virtue of which Mr. Biddle was at length set at liberty and re