Not who you're looking for? Others named Edward Hyde: first Governor of North-Carolina · English cricketer (1997-) · (1645-65) of the Middle Temple, London · English priest
“In a word, he had a head to contrive, and a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischieve, and his death appeared to be a great deliverance to the nation.”
“He many times cast himself upon the ground, with a desperate and obstinate resolution to rest there till the morning, that he might shift with less torment, what hazard soever he run.”
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