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of such a work; it has, however, been studied, though probably not with complete success. In forming his conception of the men and the period, the author has consulted the most recent authorities, whose names are too well and honourably known to students for it to be necessary for him to repeat them. It is his hope that he will not be found to have misrepresented the truth, by attempting to embody it in an artistic form.

KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,
March, 1891.

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Eliot and Hampden in the Tower

1632

[Eliot was imprisoned for his opposition to the Crown in the Parliament of 1628. His liberation was made conditional on an humble acknowledgment of his fault, which he steadily refused. He died in the Tower in the November of 1632.]

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