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Colonel Thomas Blood - Crown-stealer 1618-1680 by Wilbur Cortez Abbott The story which follows is, without doubt, one of the most curious and extraordinary in English history. It is, in fact, so remarkable that it seems necessary to begin by assuring the cautious reader that it is true. Much as it may resemble at times that species of literature known in England as the shilling shocker and in America as the dime novel, its material is drawn, not from the perfervid imagination of the author, but from sources whose very nature would seem to repudiate romance. The dullest and most sedate of official publications, Parliamentary reports, memoranda of ministers, warrants to and from officers and gaolers, newsletters full of gossip which for two hundred years and more has ceased to be news, these would seem to offer little promise of human interest. Yet even these cannot well disguise the fascination of a life like that of Thomas Blood. The tale of adventure has always divided honours with the love story. And such a career as his, full of mystery, of personal daring, and the successful defiance of law by one on whom its provisions seem to have borne too hardly, cannot be obscured even by the digest of official documents. Moreover it has historical significance. This most famous and successful of English lawbreakers was no common criminal. In a sense he was the representative of an important class during a critical period of history. Not merely to the Old Englander, but to those interested in the rise of the New England beyond seas, the fate of the irreconcilable Puritans, no less than that of their more submissive brethren, must seem of importance. This is the more true in that no small number of the men whose names appear in this narrative played parts on both sides of the Atlantic. The younger Vane, who had been the governor of Massachusetts, in 1636, and whose execution marked the early years of Restoration vengeance, is the most striking of these figures. Next to him come the fugitive regicides, Goffe, Whalley and Dixwell, who lived out their days in New Haven, Hartford and Hadley. It is not so well known, however, that Venner, whose insurrection in the early days of the Restoration was one of the most dramatic and important events of that time, was at one time a resident of Salem. Still less is it likely to be known that Paul Hobson, one of the contrivers and the involuntary betrayer of the great plot of 1663, was later allowed to remove to Carolina. The relationship of Lawrence Washington, whose activities in the early years of Charles II's reign gave the government such anxiety, to the Washingtons who settled in Virginia has been vigorously denied. But certainly no small element among these irreconcilables found sympathy, support or refuge among their brethren in the New World. And it was perhaps no more than chance that the subject of this sketch did not become governor of an English colony in America.
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The Centennial Celebration and of being commemorated, and should be perpetuated by the erection of some suitable memorial structure; and Whereas it was near this place, in the building known as The Temple, that Washington, by his appeal to the patriotism of the A rmy, saved the country from military despotism; and Whereas it is intended to purchase the grounds upon which the Temple stood, together with so much of the surrounding land as may be deemed necessary, and cause to be erected thereon a building of frame or logs in the original form or style of the said Temple as near as may be; and Whereas it is further intended to purchase certain other adjacent grounds, wherein rest Jhe remains of the Revolutionary veterans who died during the encampment of the Array near Newburgh, and cause the same to be properly inclosed, to the end that they may be perpetually kept and maintained as a burial-ground: Therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That a joint select committee be created, to consist of five Senators, to be appointed by the presiding officer of the Senate, and eight Representatives, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, whose duty it shall be to make, independently of itself or in connection with the trustees of Washington s Headquarters and the citizens committee, all necessary arrangements for a befitting celebration of the centennial ceremonies commemorative of Washington srefusal to accept a crown, the proclamation of peace, the disbandment of the A rmy, and other notable Revolutionary events, to be held at Washington s Headquarters, in the city of Newburgh and State of New York, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three. Sec. 2. That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to expend, out of the moneys hereinafter ap (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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He graduated from Wabash College in 1892. Afterward, he studied at Cornell University (1892-1895 and at Oxford in 1897 where he received the degree of Bachelor
In the United States, he worked at various institutions of higher learning (Cornell, University of Michigan, Dartmouth, University of Kansas, before being hired in 1908 at Yale. During his time at Yale he gained wide scholastic attention with the publication of The Expansion of Europe in 1917. In 1920 he was offered a position at Harvard University, in substitution of Harold Laski.
At Harvarard Abbott became the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History.
Abbott was an admirer of Oliver Cromwell (a notable English military and political leader in the 17th Century), owning memorabilia of his and authoring a bibliography book of Cromwell"s works. Abbott advised Robert G. Albion in his notable doctoral thesis Forests and Sea Power: The Timber Problem of the Royal Navy, published in 1926.
Around 1930 Abbott visited Finland, where The Harvard Crimson recounts "the Professor landed in Finland only to discover that he was something of a national figure. He was feted; he was invited to important function. His picture was printed in the papers. Professor Abbott has always been fond of Finland" Essays in Modern English History in Honor of Wilbur Cortez Abbott, Harvard University Press, 1941.
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