Oliver Cromwell (British Library Historic Lives)
Publisher: British Library Publishing Division
Published: September 1, 2004
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780712348577
Subjects: Biography: general; British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; History: World
First sentence: This day (Oh, the stupendous and inscrutable judgments of God!) were the carcasses of those arch-rebels, Cromwell, Bradshawe (the judge who condemned his Majesty), and Ireton (son-in-law to the Usurper), dragged out of their superb tombs in Westminster among the Kings, to Tyburn, and hanged on the gallows there from nine in the morning till six at night, and then buried under that fatal and ignominious monument in a deep pit; thousands of people who had seen them in all their pride being spectators.