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Excerpt from The History of the Parliament of England, Which Began November the Third, 1640: With a Short and Necessary View of Some Precedent Years
But, where Warre continues, people are iiiforccd to make their residence in several Quarters; and therefore several, according to the places where they converse, must their information be concern ing the condition and state of things. From whence arises not onely a variety, but a great discrepancy for the most part, in the Writings of those who record the passages of such times. And therefore it has scldome happened, but that, in such times of calamity and Warre, Historians have much dissented from each other. Franciscus Harens compiled Annals of the bloody and fierce Warres in the Netherlands, when some of those Provinces fell from the obedience of Philip the Second, King of Spain: Which businessc he relates in such a way, as must, in probability, lead a Reader to believe that the King and his Officers were altogether innocent, and the people. Of those Countries the only causers of their own Calamity. Mctcranus also wrote the History of those very times; which whoso reads, must needs make a contrary censure concerning the occasion of that Warre. 'l'he like discrepancy hath been found in Historians of all ages and Nations, and therefore ought not to be much wondered-at, if it should now happen.
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