Wednesday, November 04, 2009

This Day in History: November 4

The Bloody affair in St Georges Fields & the Attacks on the Rights of Election first called forth my Public Spirit , & from that era I thought it my Duty as a Christian & an honest man to quit all thoughts of ever going into full Pay (tho I had been an Officer in the English Service from the year 1740) & to enlist in the Service of the People at large as a Defender of their Civil & Religious Liberties. [More]

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