onarch and his min-ions were stigmatized as degradingEnglishmen into slaves and beasts of burden.The old horse-litter was still, however, seen,particularly for state occasions, and as late as1638, we find it in use, and delineated in LaSerres curious print, representing the proces- SOME ACCOUNT OF… … modation is ludicrously described in a bitterattack on the republicans of the Commonwealthin 1680 : Can we forget that horrid accident,when Major-General Skippon came in a horse-litter, wounded, to London ? When he passedthe brew-house near St. Johns Street, a mastiffflew, as at a bear, at one of…
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