A SEVENTEENTH.CENT1JRY PARALLEL. [To vm Eorroa or rim "Sracriroa."]
Sin,—It may perhaps interest some of your readers to peruse the following curious parallel between England as it was in 1640, as portrayed by quaint old Thomas Fuller, and England in 1914. He says:— " Matters began to be in agitation, when en a sudden (May 5th) the Parliament, wherein many things were started, nothing hunted down, or brought to perfection, was dissolved. Whilst the immediate cause hereof is commonly cast on the King and Court, demanding so many subsidies at once, England being as yet unacquainted with such prodigious payments, the more con- scientious look higher and remoter on the crying sins of our kingdom I And from this very time did God begin to gather the twigs of that rod (a civil war) wherewith soon sifter He intended to whip a wanton nation."—Church History, Book II., Section 8-11.
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