who wrote these words.

[mickman]

"had lighted a fire never to be quenched in english history"

[CSIambleside]

To an admiring Winston Churchill, 'de Montfort had lighted a fire never to be quenched in English history'

[SeaJayPea]

Paying homage, one supposes, to Hugh Latimer, one of the Oxford Martyrs, as he and Nicholas Ridley were being burnt at the stake in 1555.

'Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as I trust shall never be put out.'

Regards

[a-nigma]

In 'History of the English-Speaking Peoples', where Winston Churchill wrote that "...de Montfort had lighted a fire never to be quenched in English history. ...


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