Excerpt from Macaulay's Essay on John Hampden: With Bulwer Lytton's Essay on Lord Falkland For purposes of comparative study Macaulay's essay is followed by a reprint of an essay dealing with the Hampden period by Lord Lytton, the novelist. This essay, deals particularly with the Royalist leader, Lucius Cary, Lord Falkland, whose career and Opinions may well be studied in con junction with those of John Hampden. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.