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JOHN HAMPDEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 902 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:HAMPDEN the younger (c. 1656-1696), the second son of See also:Richard Hampden, returned to See also:England after residing for about two years in See also:France, and joined himself to See also:Lord See also:William See also:Russell and Algernon See also:Sidney and the party opposed to the arbitrary See also:government of See also:Charles II. With Russell and Sidney he was arrested in 1683 for alleged complicity in the See also:Rye See also:House See also:Plot, but more fortunate than his colleagues his See also:life was spared, although as he was unable to pay the See also:fine of £40,000 which was imposed upon him he remained in See also:prison. Then in 1685, after the failure of See also:Monmouth's rising, Hampden was again brought to trial, and on a See also:charge of high See also:treason was condemned to See also:death. But the See also:sentence was not carried out, and having paid £6000 he was set at See also:liberty. In the See also:Convention See also:parliament of 1689 he represented See also:Wendover, but in the subsequent parliaments he failed to secure a seat. He died by his own See also:hand on the 12th of See also:December 1696. Hampden wrote numerous See also:pamphlets, and See also:Bishop See also:Burnet described him as "one of the learnedest gentlemen I ever knew." See S. R. See also:Gardiner's Hist. of England and of the See also:Great See also:Civil See also:War; the See also:article on Hampden in the See also:Diet. of Nat. See also:Biography, by C. H.

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Firth, with authorities there collected ; See also:Clarendon's Hist. of the See also:Rebellion; See also:Sir See also:Philip See also:Warwick's Mems. p. 239; See also:Wood's See also:Ath. Oxon. iii. 59; Lord See also:Nugent's Memorials of John Hampden (1831); See also:Macaulay's See also:Essay on Hampden (1831). The printed pamphlet announcing his See also:capture of See also:Reading in December 1642 is shown by Mr Firth to be See also:spurious, and the See also:account in Mercurius Aulicus, See also:January 27 and 29, 1643, of Hampden commanding an attack at See also:Brill, to be also false, while the published speech supposed to be spoken by Hampden on the 4th of January 1642, and reproduced by See also:Forster in the See also:Arrest of the Five Members (166o), has been proved by Gardiner to be a See also:forgery (Hist. of England, x. 135).

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