And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Grazing cattle near the ruins of Whitby Abbey, North Yorkshire, England, 1880s - by Francis Meadow Sutcliffe
It had to be done and they pretty much ruined both themselves. The State and then The People had to have all that land returned to the tax rolls or where would all the money come from for all the wars?
Where that certain Transylvanian Count came ashore to England. Steve_in_Ottawa
ReplyDeleteThank you Henry VIII for turning a vibrant monastery and Church into a ruin.
ReplyDeleteIt had to be done and they pretty much ruined both themselves. The State and then The People had to have all that land returned to the tax rolls or where would all the money come from for all the wars?
DeleteSo, maybe the Vikings landed nearby and ravaged the place?
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