David Hume, The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Cæar to the Revolution of 1688, New Edition, Chapter 5, paragraph 23.

This extract from Hume's History was scanned in from the edition printed by Harper and Row, New York, 1879, Volume I, pp. 289--290. Hume's History was originally published 1754--1757, and the corrected edition quoted here was published in London, 1762.