Chap. ur. The HISTORy of the PuRrrANS. hurricanes that had been known for many years. Some have faid, that Oliver next night after his death, his body-was wrapped up in lead and buried in p,:~·~~r. Nofeby field, according to his defire. Others, more probably, that ~--..J. it was depofited privately in a vault in king Henry the feventh's chapel, fometime before the public funeral, which was performed Nov. 23, with all imaginable grdndeur and military pomp, from Somnjet-Hol!fe, where he had lain in {late, to the Abbey church in Wej!mzrfter, where a fine maufoleum was erected for him, on which his effigies was placed, and exhibited to the viC<w of all fipeCiators for a time; but after the king's · .? 2 /'-<. rdl:oration, his coffin was taken out of the vault, and drawn upon a fledge to 'l)'burn, where it was hanged up till fun-fet, and then buried under the gallows. Thus died the mighty OLVE R CROMWE L L, the greatell: foldier and His charac– fiate(man of his age, after he ha,C undergone excd11ve fatigues and la·- ter. bours in a long courfe of warlike altions, and efcaped innumerable dangers from the plots and confpiracies of domefiic enemies. Few hiil:orians have fpoken of him with temper, though no other genius, it may be, could have held the reins, or !leered the commonwealth, through fo many fiorms and hurricanes, as the faCtions of thefe times had railed in \ the nation. He was born at Huntingdon April 2 5, I 599, and defceoded of the family of Wi!liams of Glamorgan in Wales, which affumed the name of Cromwell by marrying with a fiil:er of Cromwell earl of f?:(fex, in the reign of king Henry VIII. The feat of the eldeil: branch of the family was called Hinchingbrook, now belonging to the earl of Sandwich, who were reputed to poffefs an eil:ate of 30000 I. a year. Oliver who was defcended of a younger branch, was educated in Cambridge, and from thence became a il:udent of Linco!n's-Inn, being a wild and extravagant youth till about the thirty-fifth year of his age, when he quitted his irregular life, and became remarkably fober. In the year I 640 he was chofen reprefentative in parliament for the town of Cambridge, and fat two years undifiingui!hed in the houfe, as a meer country gentleman, appearing (fays Sir Philip Warwick) in a plain cloth fuit of clothes made by a country taylor, his linnen not very clean, his band unfa!hionable, his hat without an hatband, and his fword clofe by his fide; his countenance wa11 fwoln and reddi{h, his voice hoarfe and untunable, but his elocution was full of fervor and warmth, and he was well heard in the houfe. His perfon fomewhat exceeded the middle il:ature, but was well propor– tioned, compaCt and il:rong. He had a mafculine countenance, a fparkling eye, a manly il:ern look, a vigorous conil:itntion,- and was an enemy to eafe and excefs ; the motto upon his coat of arms was, pax qua:- ritur bello. · - VoL. II. Uuu
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