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We have lived a long time.... without war... We have had peace when all the world has been in arms... It is … a thing most horrible that we should engage ourself in war with another.... With our own venom... we will destroy ourself.

He himself became a victim of the Civil War when Oliver Cromwell ordered him beheaded in 1658

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Henry Slingsby

Born: January 14, 1602
Died: June 8, 1658
Nationality: English
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Sir Henry Slingsby of Scriven, 1st Baronet, 14 January 1602 – 8 June 1658, was a Yorkshire landowner, politician and soldier who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1625 and 1642. He supported the Royalist cause during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and was executed in 1658 for his part in a conspiracy to restore Charles II.

HENRY SLINGSBY

(Sir Henry Slingsby of Scriven, 1st Baronet)