Harley receiving the Legion memorial th century late th century Robert Harley st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer was an English statesman of the Stuart and early Georgian periods The Legions Memorial was a document written by author Daniel Defoe and was intended to remind the Commons that Englishmen are no more to be slaves to Parliament than to a King Print taken from Cassells Illustrated History of England volume IV published by Cassell Petter Galpin and Co London Paris and New York th century