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Episode 377 After Strafford

Well, last time we ended with the death of Thomas went with Earl of Strafford.

Political execution at best I suppose, due to his murder at worst possibly.

The execution was seen in as many different ways as there were factions.

The royalist John Evelyn was horrified when he saw the fatal stroke which severed the wisest

head in England from the shoulders of the Earl of Strafford, who screamed,

coming under the cognizance of no human law, a new one was made.

On the other hand, Nehemiah Wallington, the Puritan would turn away,

met last time, was overjoyed, at the blow that had been struck against those that had oppressed him

and his fellows over the last eleven years, a victory against all the odds over the greatest

power in the land. The great Goliath was executed to the joy of the Church of God.

Lists circulated of those that had supported Strafford, accused of being,

traitors of our country. But when challenged by such a crowd, one of those MPs at least had the

courage to angrily spit that the attainer was nothing but murder with a sort of justice.

The manor in which he had defended himself and in which he met death had won him at very

least the respect of those who saw the drummer close at hand. Edward Hyde had not liked him,

and although he would later become a loyal supporter of the king, he'd firmly believed in 1641

that Charles must be forced to reform. And to that end, Strafford had to die. But he was also

affected by the events and reflected that many of the standards by, who had not been over

charitable to him in his life, being much affected with the courage and Christianity of his death.

You can't help feeling that Hyde was talking about his own feelings there.

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