Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1853-01-27
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CrOmYelPS Remains.

"On the thirteenth day Of Jan, 1900, Oil
yer Cromwell, Iret0n, and Bradshaw, wer,
drawn to Tyburn on three sledges, and, be
ing taken from their coffins, hanged at tn,
several angles; afterwards their heads wer,
cut of, and set on Westminster Hall. The
following is transcript from Ms. diary o.
Mr Edward SaintbiIl, Spanish merchant, o.
Of those times, and preserved by his descend
ants.
THE 30th Of January being tha, day twelve
years froin the death of the king, the odious
carcases Of Oliver Cromwell, Major General
lrelon, and Bradshaw, and Bradshaw, were
drawn in sledges to Tyburn. where they were
hanged by the neck, from morning till four
in the afternoon. Cromwell in green sesr
cloth, very fresh, embalmed; Ireton having
been buried long, hung like dried rat
Bradshaw in hs winding. sheet, the fingers
OF his righ, hand and his nose perished hav-
ing wet the sheet through the rest very per.
feet, insomuch that knew bis face. when the
hangman, after cutting his head oil, held il up
Of his toes, had fiye or SIX in INV hand, " hich
the 'prenlices had cut of. Their bodies
were then thrown into hole under the val.
lows, in their scar cloth and sheet. Cromwell
had eight cuts, lreton, four being scar cloths.
and the heads were set up on the south end
Of Westminster Hall" In marginal note
is drawing of 1yburn (by the same hand, J
with the bodies hanging. and the grave un.
derneath. Cromwell is represented like a
mummy. swathed up, with no visible legs or
feet. To this memorandum is added:
lreion, died the 26ih Of November 1851
Cromwell, the 3lS OF ofSrptemb-r. 6j3.
bradshaw, the 3lst Of October, 1859.
In the same diary are the following artic-
les: January 9th, 1861, Sir A. Iaxlcriqg,
that choeric rebel, died in the tower. The
18th Venner and his accomplice hanged--he
and another in Coleman street: the other
seventeen in hther places If the city. Sep
tember Sd, 1852, Cromwell's olorious and yet
fatal day, died that long speaker If the Long
Parliament William Lenthall, very penitent-
IT, Yet, according to other accounts, the body
of Oliver has been differently disposed Of
Some say that it was sunk in Thames; others,
that it was buried in Nnsrby field. But the
most romantic story Of all, is that his corpse
was privately taken 10 Windsor, and put IN
To King Charles GOTTA: while the body Of the
King was buried In state for divers, and
consequently. afterwards hanged at Tyburn,
and the head exposed n, Westminster Hall.
The idle reports might arise from the nrressi-
si'y there Was Of intrring the Protectors
body before the funeral rites were perform.
ed for it appears to have been deposited in
Westminster Abbey. in the place now occu.
pied by the tomb Of Buckingham The en-.
gr"vcd plate on his coffin is still in being
SlrJ. Brestwick. in his Respuhlica, tells us,
that Crnmwr's remains were privately in.
TERED in a small paddock, near |loborn, on
the spot where the ubclisk in Red Lion Square
stood"
History relates that the body Of Cromwell
WAS Inferred in Westminster Abbey, and tina,
the corpse. nv command of Charles H., was
dug up in 1861. hanged. and buried under
the gaiows. 1t is singulur. however that
neither Hume nor Macauay mentions this
fact. = Harpers Nngazine.