oul that he is not a
rational soul; he is fit to live in dens with such beasts of prey as
wolves and tygers like himself; therefore I do condemn him to
perpetual Imprisonment, as those monsters that are no longer fit to
live among men nor to see light." "I would have him branded in the
forehead, slit in the nose, and his ears cropped too." The sentence
was executed the 7th and 10th of May, 1633.[31] But nothing
intimidated, the sturdy man committed other offences of like nature,
"obstructing" other "officers," and was punished again, and banished.
But on the summoning of Parliament returned to England, and became
powerful in that Revolution which crushed the tyrants of the time.

[Footnote 31: 3 St. Tr. 561; 2 Hallam, 28, and his authorities. See
also 2 Echard, 109, _et seq._, 124, _et seq._, 202, 368, 510; the
remarks of Hume, Hist. ch. lii., remind me of the tone of the fugitive
slave bill Journals of Boston in 1850-54.]

8. In 1685, James II. was in reality a Catholic. He wished to restore
Romanism to England and abolish the work of the Reformation, the
better to establish the despotism which all of his family had sought
to plant. He was determined to punish such as spoke against the Papal
Church, though no law prohibited such speaking. Judge Jeffreys, a
member of the cabinet and favorite of the king, was at that time chief
justice--abundantly fit for the work demanded of him. The pious and
venerable Richard Baxter was selected for the victim. Let Mr. Macaulay
tell the story.

"In a Commentary on the New Testament, he had complained,
with some bitterness, of the persecution which the
Dissenters suffered. That men, who, for not using the
Prayerbook, had been driven from their homes, stripped of
their property, and locked up in dungeons, should dare to
utter a murmur, was then thought a high crime against the
State and Church. Roger Lestrange, the champion of the
government, and the oracle of the clergy, sounded the note
of war in the Observator. An information was filed. Baxter
begged that he might be allowed some time to prepare for his
defence. It was on the day on which Oates was pilloried in
Palace Yard that the illustrious chief of the Puritans,
oppressed by age and infirmities, came to Westminster Hall
to make this request. Jeffreys burst into a storm of rage.
'Not a minute,' he cried, 'to save his life. I can deal with
saints a