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Excerpt from The House of Cromwell and the Story of Dunkirk: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of the Protector, With Anecdotes and Letters
About the year 1842 Mr. John Langton Sanford of the Temple, struck by the astounding discrepancies which had long been conspicuous among the biographers of Oliver Cromwell, resolved to make an independent investigation on his own account, and to commence the task by forming as complete a collection as possible of the hero's letters and speeches. Of these, he had brought together about three hundred, when Mr. Carlyle's work on the same subject came forth to light in 1845. As each collection contained documents which were wanting in the other, Mr. Sanford promptly and generously surrendered his own contingent, which accordingly made part of Mr. Carlyle's second edition of 1846. To specify what that contingent supplied, would now be a super ?uous task; it may suffice to mention that it included the Clonmacnoise Manifesto, perhaps the most masterly and characteristic specimen on record of Cromwell's polemical discernment.
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