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"Next unto them followed the servants of the several persons of all qualities, which attended the funeral.

"These were followed by all his late highness's servants, as well inferior as superior, both within and without the household, as also all his highness's bargemen and watermen.

"Next unto these followed the servants and officers belonging to the lord-mayor and sheriffs of the city of London. “Then came several gentlemen and attendants on the respective ambassadors, and the other public ministers.

"After these came the poor knights of Windsor, in gowns and hoods.

"Then followed the clerks, secretaries, and other officers, belonging to the army, the admiralty, the treasury, the navy, and the exchequer.

"After these came the officers in command in the fleet, as also the officers of the army.

"Next followed the commissioners for excise, those of the army, and the committee of the navy.

"Then followed the commissioners for the approbation of preachers.

"Then came the officers, messengers, and clerks belonging to the privy-council, and the clerks of both houses of parlia

ment.

"Next followed his late highness's physicians.

"The head officers of the army.

"The chief officers and aldermen of the city of London. "The masters of the chancery, with his highness's learned council at law.

"The judges of the admiralty, the masters of request, with the judges in Wales.

"The barons of the exchequer, the judges of both benches, and the lord-mayor of London.

"Next to these the persons allied in blood to his late highness, and the members of the lords' house.

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After them the public ministers of foreign states and princes.

"Then the Holland ambassador alone, whose train was

borne up by four gentlemen.

"Next to him the Portugal ambassador alone, whose train was held up by four knights of the order of Christ.

"And thirdly the French ambassador, whose train was also held up by four persons of quality.

"Then followed the lords commissioners of the great seal. "The lords commissioners of the treasury.

"The lords of his late highness's most honourable privy

council.

"After whom followed the chief mourner, and those persons of quality which were his assistants, and bare up his train. All the nobles were in close mourning, the rest were but in ordinary, being disposed in their passage into several divisions, being distinguished by drums and trumpets, and by a standard or banner borne by a person of honour, and his assistant, and a horse of state covered with black velvet, and led by a person of honour, followed by two grooms: of which horses there were cleven in all, four covered with black cloth, and seven with velvet. These being all passed in order, at length the chariot followed with the effigies; on each side of which were borne six bannerrolls, twelve in all, by as many persons of honour. The several pieces of his late highness's armour were borne by eight honourable persons, officers of the army, attended by a herald and a gentleman on each side. Next followed garter, principal king of arms, attended by a gentleman on each side bare-headed.

"Then came the chief mourner, together with those lords and noble personages that were supporters and assistants to the chief mourner.

"Then followed the horse of honour, in very rich trappings, embroidered upon crimson velvet, and adorned with white, red, and yellow plumes, and was led by the master of the horse.

"Finally, in the close of all, followed his late highness s guard of halberdiers, and the warders of the tower.

"The solemnity was managed with a great deal of state, from Somerset-house to Westminster; many thousands of people being spectators in the windows, and upon the scaffolds, all along the way as it passed.

"At the west gate of the abbey church, the hearse with the effigies thereon was taken off again from the chariot, by those ten gentlemen who placed it thereon before, and in their passing on to carry it into the church, the canopy of state was by the former six gentlemen borne over it again; in which stately manner it was carried up to the east end of the abbey, and there placed in that magnificent structure which was purposely erected there to receive it; where it is to remain for some time exposed to public view. The corpse having been some days before interred in Henry the seventh's chapel, in a vault purposely prepared for the same, over which a costly monument is preparing.

"Thus have you a brief relation of the last ceremonies of honour which were performed to the memory of his late highness; who by his heroic acts had so well deserved, as that, my dull pen not able to express them, I shall remit the reader to censure my endeavours, and submit to those that shall hereafter undertake to present the world with a large chronicle."

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This act of barbarous malignancy is known to have originated with the restored monarch, or his flatterers and immediate advisers. But even the two houses of Parliament condescended to follow in the train of the court sycophants, and so far to colour the act of Charles, as to vote that the bodies of Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw, should be taken up and exposed! The corpse of Cromwell's mother was also taken from Westminster Abbey, where it had been interred with much pomp, and thrown, with many more, into a hole in St. Margaret's church-yard: and the practice was continued upon.

the remains of many others, who had been eminent as republicans, or under the protectoral government; the fame of the renowned Admiral Blake not sufficing, as before related, to preserve his mouldering frame, more than the rest, from this offensive indignity. The strong expression of discontent that burst spontaneously from the people, could alone put a stop to acts of retaliation upon dead bodies so disgraceful to their perpetrators.

The following account is from a contemporary:

Jan. 30. O. S. "The odious carcasses of O. Cromwell, H. Ireton, and J. Bradshaw, drawn upon sledges to Tyburn; and, being pulled out of their coffins, there hanged at the several angles of that triple tree till sun-set. Then taken down, beheaded, and their loathsome truncks thrown into a deep hole under the gallowes. Their heads were afterwards set upon poles on the top of Westminster-hall."-Gesta Britannorum : at the end of Wharton's Almanack for 1663.

*The mason's receipt for taking up the bodies, as copied from the original by Dr. Cromwell Mortimer, Secretary to the Royal Society." May the 4th day, 1661, Recd then in full of the worshipful sergeant Norfolke, fiveteen shillinges, for taking up the corpes of Cromell, and Ierton, and Brasaw.

Rec. by mee John Lewis."

When the coffin of Cromwell was broken into, a leaden canister was found lying on his breast, and within it a copperplate, gilt, with the arms of England, impaling those of Cromwell, on one side, and on the other the following inscription:

Oliverius Protector Reipublicæ Angliæ, Scotia, et Hiberniæ, Natus 25° Aprilis Anno 1599o, Inauguratus 16° Decembris 1653, Mortuus 3 Septembris Anno 1658°, hic situs est.

THE END.

LONDON:

SHACKELL AND ARROWSMITH, JOHNSON'S-COURT, FLEET-STREET.

ERRATA.

Fage 25, for previously, read previous.

139, for private fancy, read his private fancy.

178, for consequences, read consequence.

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225, for Icon attributed to him,' read 'Icon' attributed to him. 230, for late and wicked engagement, read late wicked engage

ment.

359, for so desire him, read to desire him.

482, for but has lived, read but lived.

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