Better that men should die bravely, with their arms in their hands, like free-born Englishmen, than that they should slide into the bloodless but dishonoured grave which slavery opens for its vassals--But it is not of war that I was about to speak," he added, assuming a milder tone.

"The evils of which England now complains, are such as can be remedied by the wholesome administration of her own laws, even in the state in which they are still suffered to exist.

Have these laws not a right to the support of every individual who lives under them?
Have they not a right to yours ?" As he seemed to pause for an answer, Peveril replied, "I have to learn, Major Bridgenorth, how the laws of England have become so far weakened as to require such support as mine.

When that is made plain to me, no man will more willingly discharge the duty of a faithful liegeman to the law as well as the King.

But the laws of England are under the guardianship of upright and learned judges, and of a gracious monarch." "And of a House of Commons," interrupted Bridgenorth, "no longer doting upon restored monarchy, but awakened, as with a peal of thunder, to the perilous state of our religion, and of our freedom.