hambden's

Updated: May 9, 2025

It was urged by Hambden's counsel, and by his partisans in the nation, that the plea of necessity was in vain introduced into a trial of law; since it was the nature of necessity to abolish all law, and, by irresistible violence, to dissolve all the weaker and more artificial ties of human society.

David Hume - The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E.: From Charles I. to Cromwell

A declaration, he added, had been read by Ferguson in Russel's presence: the reasons of the intended insurrection were there set forth, and all the public grievances fully displayed. Lord Howard had been one of the cabal of six, established after Shaftesbury's flight; and two meetings had been held by the conspirators, one at Hambden's, another at Russel's.

David Hume - The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F.: From Charles II. to James II.