A scene from Hudibras, an English satirical polemic written by Samuel Butler(1613 – 1680), poet and satirist, mostly against Parliamenterians,Roundheads, Puritans, Presbyterians and other factions involved in the English Civil War of 1642-1651. Here is one of the Independents, a mongrel kind of church dragoon, a militant for whom the Lord was a "man of war".

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Location: England
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