"You have accounted yourselves happy on being environed with a great ditch from all the world beside."
— Oliver Cromwell

January 1, 1970

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Speech to Parliament (25 January 1658), quoted in The Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., volume 2: April 1657 - February 1658 (1828), p. 361