L'Estrange, Sir Roger, a zealous Royalist, born in Norfolk; was for his zeal in the royal cause committed to prison; having escaped, he was allowed to live in retirement under Cromwell, but woke up a vigorous pamphleteer and journalist in the old interest at the Restoration, “wounding his Whig foes very sorely, and making them wince”; he translated Josephus, Cicero's “Offices,” Seneca's “Morals,” the “Colloquies” of Erasmus, and Quevedo's “Visions,” his most popular work (1616‒1704).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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