[Coleridge’s Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge]@TWC D-Link bookColeridge’s Literary Remains, Volume 4. BOOK I 31/39
98, 99, 100? Even Cromwell, though he might have prevented, could not have effected, the sentence.
The regicidal judges were not his creatures.
Consult the Life of Colonel Hutchinson upon this. Ib.p.
374. Since this, Dr.Peter Moulin hath, in his Answer to 'Philanax Anglicus', declared that he is ready to prove, when authority will Call him to it, that the King's death, and the change of the government, was first proposed both to the Sorbonne, and to the Pope with his Conclave, and consented to and concluded for by both. The Pope in his Conclave had about the same influence in Charles's fate as the Pope's eye in a leg of mutton.
The letter intercepted by Cromwell was Charles's death-warrant.
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