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In a famous speech, delivered in November 1640 before the House of Commons, when Parliament was reconvened after eleven years of personal rule by Charles I, Sir Benjamin Rudyerd said:
I have often thought and said, that it must be some great extremity that would recover and rectify this State; and when that extremity did come, it would be a great hazard whether it might prove a Remedy or Ruin. We are now, Mr Speaker, upon that vertical turning point, and therefore it is no time to palliate, to foment our own undoing.1
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Morse, D. (1989). A Great Hazard: the Coming of Civil War. In: England’s Time of Crisis: From Shakespeare to Milton. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09770-8_7
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