Simply this: it has convinced me that you are clearing your position of some popular protections which still surrounded it.
"Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2"
Robert Ornsby
But not satisfied with all their protections of armour and camouflage, they actually, when hard-pressed by an enemy, feign death, like an opossum!
"The Human Side of Animals"
Royal Dixon
Prynne, in his True and Perfect Narrative, bitterly denounced Cromwell in "that Sir Kenelme Digby was his particular favourite, and lodged at Whitehall; that Maurice Conry, Provincial of the Franciscans in England, and other priests, had his protections under hand and seal."
"The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened"
Kenelm Digby