“I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.” Richard Rumbold, (1744–1775), (1622–1685) Parliamentarian soldier, political radical, exiled for his role in the 1683 Rye House Plot, later executed for taking part in the 1685 Argyll’s Rising. Source: His final words on the scaffold before he was hanged in 1685. Douglass ADAIR, Rumbold’s Dying Speech, 1685, and Jefferson’s Last Words on Democracy, 1826 [Notes and Documents], in: William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, 9, 1952, p. 521.
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