Excerpt from The Puritan Character: An Address Delivered Before the New England Society of the City of Montreal; December 23, 1857 The same royal banner waves over us which was flung to the breeze at Marston Moor, at Naseby and at Worcester. We sit under that same sceptre which was borne by Henry VIII, the veritable Blue beard Of our nursery terrors, by bloody Mary, at whose name the cheek of our childhood was blanched, and by James I, who threatened, and was as good as his word, to harry our fore fathers out Of his realm. 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.