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No Quarter!

by Thomas Mayne REID (1818 - 1883)

An Ambuscade

There is no page in England’s history so bright, nor of which Englishmen have such reason to be proud, as that covering the period between 1640 and 1650. This glorious decade was ushered in by the election of the “Long Parliament,” and I challenge the annals of all nations, ancient or modern, to show an assembly in which sat a greater number of statesmen and patriots. Brave as pure, fearless in the discharge of their difficult and dangerous duties, they faltered not in the performance of them—shrank not from impeaching a traitor to his country, and bringing his head to the block, even when it carried a crown. True to their consciences, as to their constituencies, they left England a heritage of honour that for long haloed her escutcheon, and even to this hour throws its covering screen over many a deed of shame. (From the Prologue)

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Listen next episodes of No Quarter!:
A Courageous Wader , A Crime in Contemplation , A Fight in a Flood , A Glittering Cohort , A Guard Carelessly Kept , A House on Fire , A Messenger Despatched , Again Presentiments , An Exciting Epistle , An Introduction in the Saddle , At Home Again , Brought Home a Prisoner , Hawking at Home , In Carousal , On the Trail , Quartered upon the Enemy , Their Dear Ones in Danger , Very Near an Encounter