In Council of War

No Quarter!

by Thomas Mayne REID (1818 - 1883)

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)

Listen next episodes of No Quarter!:
A City of Refuge , A Complete Eclaircissement , A Contradanza , A Courageous Wader , A Crime in Contemplation , A Despatch Cunningly Conveyed , A Fight in a Flood , A Glittering Cohort , A Guard Carelessly Kept , A Home Gayer than Congenial , A House on Fire , A Labyrinth of Jealousies , A Messenger Despatched , A Mixed Assembly , A Pas-Seul , A Princely Admirer , A Reconnaissance , A Town Cleverly Taken , After Roundway Down , Again Presentiments , An Ambuscade , An Exciting Epistle , An Introduction in the Saddle , An Uphill Chase , At Home Again , Awaiting War News , Between Two Prisons , Brought Home a Prisoner , By the 'Buckstone' , Fiennes Shows the White Feather , Guardian Angels , Hawking at Home , High Meadow House , In Carousal , Insulting a Fallen Foe , Old Comrades , On the Trail , Out in the Storm , Quartered upon the Enemy , The Cadgers on the Kymin , The Night Owl , Their Dear Ones in Danger , Very Near an Encounter