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and a soldier and disciplinarian proved in the wars of the Low Countries--a very prototype of the great Cromwell. He understood what manner of task he had undertaken, and executed it without flinching. As a matter of course--it was the way in that colony--there was a conspiracy against his authority. There was no second conspiracy under him. Punishment was inflicted on the ringleaders so swift, so terrible, as to paralyze all future sedition. He put in force, in the name of the Company, a code of
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Laws, Divine, Moral, and Martial,