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Rev. Sarnud V_/_iling. 5 I<br />

the right of governments; that she felt pro-<br />

found personal interest in political, no less than<br />

in polemical questions ; that she observed with<br />

painful apprehension the beginning of the<br />

contest of the people against their sovereign,<br />

the fierce and irreconcilable conflict of popular<br />

rights with royal prerogative (a conflict which<br />

soon burst out in bloody revolution, dethroned<br />

a king, and placed one of her brother's relatives<br />

at the head of the British nation), it seems dif-<br />

ficult to doubt, considering the circumstances<br />

in which she was placed, and the persons by<br />

whom she was surrounded. While Sir John<br />

St. John, the representative of one branch of<br />

her family, sided with the royalists, and lost<br />

three of his sons in the service of his sover-<br />

eign, her father, an influential member of par-<br />

liament, was opposed to the royal cause. Her<br />

brother Oliver, beyond doubt the first lawyer of<br />

his time, had questioned the king's prerogatives<br />

on several occasions, long before he made his<br />

famous defence of John Hampden in the ship-<br />

money case. A firm friend and stanch political<br />

supporter of Cromwell, he was sternly opposed<br />

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