A Prince that loseth the Force and Example of his Punishments, loseth withal the greatest Part of his Dominion.
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Letter to William Laud on the trial of William Prynne (18 October 1637), quoted in William Knowles, The Earl of Strafforde's Letters and Dispatches, With An Essay towards his Life, by Sir George Radcliffe. From the Originals in the Possession of his Great Grandson The Right Honourable Thomas, Earl of Malton, Knight of the Bath, Vol. II (1740), p. 119