A Memoir of the Life And Times of the Right Honourable Sir Ralph Sadleir
A Memoir of the Life And Times of the Right Honourable Sir Ralph Sadleir
Francis Sadleir Stoney
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Of August, descended from their vantage ground on the hill, and offered battle to Warwick in the valley. They were attacked and defeated witli great slaughter, and Dussemlale wax filled with blood, but the blood was the rebels' own. Robert Ket, their "Captain, " and his brother William rode for their lives, but they were overtaken and eventually hanged. * nolinshed. f Sir Ixalph Sadleir was, 110 doubt. One of the number. I Holiushcd. SIE RALPH SADLEIR. 121 The main rebellion being thus complete...ly crushed, "Warwick returned to London the hero of the hour, and rose in public favour, while Somerset, whose maladministration was blamed for all the mischief at home and abroad, descended in the scale. Nor was it the least cause of complaint against the Protector that while the afl'airs of State gradually ebbed towards ruin, his private fortur > increased enormously. * AVhen he was appointed Protector, "he faithfully promised and swore in open Council to do nothing touching the state of affairs without the advice of the rest of the Council, or the majority of them; and yet, nevertheless, he had been never so little in that room but he began to do things of most weight and importance by himself, without calling any of the Council thereunto; and if for manners' sake lie called any man, all was one, for he would order the matter as he pleased himself, refusing to hear any man's reason but his own, and in a short time became so haught and arrogant that he sticked not in open Council to taunt such as frankly spake their opinions so far beyond the limits of reason as not to be declared.
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