...of habilitie to discerne and chose mete and sufficient counsailors for a prince : how presumpteous then are ye the rude commons of one shire, and that one of the most brute and beastly of the whole realme, and of the least experience, to fynd faute with your Prince for the electyng of his counsaylours...

...what that very frank sovereign said to them, as Mr. Bright '*a tells us, in 1537 : 'How presumptuous are ye, the rude commons of one shire, and that one of the most brute and beastly of the whole realm ' ? The truth is, the greatest of all the differences between us is in the point of view from which...

...taxed.* The cry rose louder in proportion as the people were ignorant. In Lincolnshire, in ' that shire the most brute and beastly of the whole realm, and of least experience,' as Henry afterwards said, the rebellion first gathered head. On October the second, at Caistor.t and...