would spend their last drop of blood against Popery but 'do not know whether it be a man or a horse.'

There were 10,000 stout fellows, as Daniel Defoe had written earlier in the century in The Behaviour of Servants, who would spend their last drop of blood against Popery but 'do not know whether it be a man or a horse.'

A. Fraser, The king and the catholics (2018), 3