A saddle on his back

This is a deluded generation, veiled in ignorance, that though popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; though I am sure that there was no man born marked by God above another; for none comes into this world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him ...

Richard Rumbold (1622-1685)

declaration on the scaffold, 1685-Jun-26