Cromwell on a Permissive Bill.—A correspondent writing to an English journal, says; —** It may be news to some of your readers that a permissive Bill Was talked of in the seventeenth century. The following extract trom Whitelock’s 1 Memorials’ (folio edition, ICB2, p, 457) shows Cromwell’s views on the subject. It is part of a reply to some Scotch ministers: ‘ Vour pretended fear lest error should step in is like the man who would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unwise and unjust jealousy to deny the man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition ho may abuse it; when he docs abuse it, judge-.' ”
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Dunstan Times, Issue 635, 19 June 1874, Page 2
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