"I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; tho I am sure there was no man born marked of God above another, for none comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him."
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"Speech on the Scaffold", 1685
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Richard Rumbold
Richard Rumbold (1622–1685) was an English soldier and revolutionary who took part in the Rye House Plot to assassinate Charles II of England and his brother James.
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