Footnote:
[A] There is much evidence that this was the celebrated John Hampden, renowned in the time of Charles I, and to whom Gray, in his Elegy, alludes:
"The village Hampden, that with dauntless breast
The little tyrant of his fields withstood."
[A] There is much evidence that this was the celebrated John Hampden, renowned in the time of Charles I, and to whom Gray, in his Elegy, alludes:
"The village Hampden, that with dauntless breast
The little tyrant of his fields withstood."