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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Jane Barker

Born: 1652
Died: 1732 (aged 80)
Bio: Jane Barker was a popular English fiction writer, poet, and a staunch Jacobite. She went into self-imposed exile when James II fled England during the Glorious Revolution in 1688.
Known for:
- A Patch Work Screen (1723)
- Bosvil And Galesia
- Exilius ; Or, The Banish'd Roman (1715)