San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-30

as not daring to bring him to public
justice, nor could he suppress that
scandal" 1t appears that on the
night preceding the day fixed for
Syndercombe's execution his sister
came to take leave of him, and sur
reptitiousIy gave him some powder,
which be snutted up his nose, short
ly afterwards jumping into bed,
eXClaiming that lt was for the last
time. He then turned over to sleep
on his side, and never made the
slightest noise throughout the night.
In the morning he was found dead,
and the surgeon who examined his
body discovered that he had taken
up into his nostrils some we'll prepar-
ed poison, which in an instant curd-
led all his blood, and presently suffo-
Gated him." His corpse was drawn
by a horse to the gallows where it
ought TO have been hanged, and was
buried yellow, with stake driven
through the heart, as 1T is usual in
the case of self murderers. The
whole episode caused Cromwell no
slight trouble and anXiety-for Syn
dercombe was man supposed to be
attached to his persOn-and led him
to contract uneasy suspicious about
the loyalty of his army.
The late Mr.. Haliwell-Phillips once
journeyed in a carriage from STRAIT
ford-on-AvOn to London, and made
notes of every house and building
still existing on which Shakespeare's
eyes might have rested. Suisse
quently, he caused an artist to travel
hn 70 T.,
sketches of these precious objects
which the genius of Shakespeare hal
lowed in the estimation of the poets
devoutest admirer. There are Eng
lishmen in whose eyes Cromwell APP
pears, scarcely if at all, less great
than Shakespeare; and in this
faith, neither Mr.. Palgrave
nor any other disbeliever in
the Lord Protector is likely to shake
them. Shakespeare died in 1916 and
Cromwell in 1868, and it is already
scarcely less difficult to find houses
upon which the latter's eye indu bita b.
ly rested than in the case of the for
mer. We trust that before Synder-
combe's cottage on the Shepherd
bush-green is pulled down this relic
of old London history will be care
fully photographed, for the delecta-
ton of the wOrshlpers of the Lord
Protector. Considering the large place
that he occupied in English history,
and the fact that less than two and
a half centuries have elapsed since
his death, the still living memen-
toes of Cromwell are few indeed.
In his Landmarks of London, y
Mr.. Laurence Hutton, an American,
can refer us to no building inseper-
ably identified with the man from
whom Lord Clarendon could not
withhold his unbounded admiration,
reluctantly drawn from the stanchest
of rOyalists by the destroyer of the
throne and the uprOOter of monarchy.
The conspiracy, condemnation and
death of Miles SynderCOmbe are of
lasting interest, for they taught the
lord protector that he could not
trust in his old chosen asso-
ciates, and even the Ironsides,
who under him had won Naseby,
Marston Moor and Dunbar. That
old matched cottage, which will soon
be blotted from the things that be,
recalls the last troubled years of
Cromwell's rule, when his serenity of
mind had passed away, although his
power and authority seemed more
firmly established than ever. "At
that time" according TO the great
historian from whom we have already
q LOted, Cromwell was more appre.
hensive of danger to his person than
he used to be-" When he passed
from Whitehall to Hampton Court and
back he was hemmed in by guards
before and behind, and the coach in
which he travelled was "thronged
with armed servants" He never re-
turned by the same way that he went,
and rarely slept two consecutive
nights in the same chamber. II it he
true that uneasy lies the head that
wears CROWN it is stil truer that
a Cromwell or Napoleon can never
hope to be free from those natural APP
prehensions to which usurpation OF
power necessarily gives rise.
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