Chapter XXXV: Part IV: The Achievement

"We are Englishmen; that is one good account. And if God give a nation valour and courage, it is honour and a mercy."--OLIVER P., 1656, _Speech to Parliament, Tuesday, 16th Sept., in the Painted Chamber_.

"I was by birth a gentleman living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity. I have been called to several employments in the Nation.... I did endeavour to discharge the duty of an honest man in those services."--OLIVER P., _ibid._, _12th Sept. 1654_.

"If my calling be from God and my testimony from the People--only God and the People will take it from me, else I shall not part with it--I should be false to the trust that God hath placed in me, and to the interest of the people of these nations if I should."--OLIVER P., _ibid._