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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Colonial history. (search)
ed, and whose liberties it increased; its corporate ambition next prevailed, and it set itself against the throne and the peerage, both of which it was hurried forward to subvert; individual selfishness at last had its triumph, and there were not wanting men who sought lucrative jobs, and grasped at disproportioned emoluments. Nothing could check the progress of degeneracy and corruption; the example, the ability, and the conscientious purity of Henry Vane were unavailing. Had the life of Hampden been spared, he could not have changed the course of events, for he could not have changed the laws of nature, and the principles of human action. The majority in parliament was become the despot of England; and after one hundred and eighteen 1644 royalist members, obeying the summons of the king, had repaired to Oxford, the cause of royalty was powerless in the legislature. The party of the Church of England was prostrate; but religious and political parties were identified; and the n
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
e blood of Sidney and of Russell; and the colonists knew, that, on the very day of the death of Russell, July 21. the university of Oxford, recalling the days of Henry VIII., and asserting an historical fact rather than a principle, had declared submission and obedience. clear, absolute, and without exception, to be the badge and character of the church of England. They knew that many cities of England had surrendered their charters; that London itself, the metropolis which had sheltered Hampden against Charles I., had found resistance ineffectual; and to render submission in Massachusetts easy, by showing that opposition was desperate, two hundred copies of the proceedings against London, Chap XII.} 1683. were sent over to be dispersed among the people. The governor and assistants, the patrician branch of the government, were persuaded of the hopelessness of further resistance; even a tardy surrender of the charter might conciliate the monarch. They, there- Nov. 15. fore, res