Europe During the Thirty Years War - Book II of II Quotes

“Their inability or unwillingness to accommodate themselves to English ideas, their repeated rebellions and intrigues with foreign Powers, had exhausted the patience of English statesmen and forced them, at first more in self-defence than from any other reason, to adopt a policy of extirpation and plantation.”
― Adolphus William Ward, Europe During the Thirty Years War - Book II of II