"I have left there a true Englishman's hand."
— England
January 1, 1970
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William Page's remark after his hand had been cut off as a punishment for publishing John Stubbs's Gaping Gulf (3 November 1579), quoted in John Stubbs's Gaping Gulf: With Letters and Other Relevant Documents, ed. Lloyd Eason Berry (1968), p. xxxvi and John Harington, Nugæ Antiquæ, Vol. III (1792), p. 183
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William Page's remark after his hand had been cut off as a punishment for publishing John Stubbs's Gaping Gulf (3 November 1579), quoted in John Stubbs's Gaping Gulf: With Letters and Other Relevant Documents, ed. Lloyd Eason Berry (1968), p. xxxvi and John Harington, Nugæ Antiquæ, Vol. III (1792), p. 183