Cromwell Volume 1-2

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... foot in length," which they well knew howto use, upon whom, I fear, the ordinance against Papists pressed hard this day. The king's carriage was also taken, with a cabinet and many royal autographs in it, which, when printed, made a sad impression against his Majesty, --gave, in fact, a most melancholy view of the veracity of his Majesty. "On the word of a king," all was lost! BRIDGET CROMWELL'S WEDDING. IIBM ND now, dated on the Monday be fore, at Holton, a country parish in those parts, there is this still legible in the old church register, --intimately interesting to some friends of ours!" Henry Ireton, Commissary-General to Sir Thomas Fairfax, and Bridget, daughter to Oliver Cromwell, Lieutenant-General of the Horse, to the said Sir Thomas Fairfax, were married, by Mr. Dell, in the Lady Whorwood her house in Holton, June 15th, 1646.--Alt Ban Eales, Rector." Ireton, we are to remark, was one of Fairfax's commissioners on the treaty for surrendering Oxford, and busy under the walls there at present. Holton is some five miles east of the city; Holton House, we guess, by various indications, to have been Fairfax's own quarter. Dell, already and afterwards well known, was the general's chaplain at this date. Of "the Lady Whorwood" I have traces, rather in the royalist direction; her strong moated house, very useful to Fairfax in those weeks, still stands conspicuous in that region, though now under new figure and ownership; drawbridge becomes fixed, deep ditch now dry, moated island changed into a flower-garden;--"rebuilt in 1807." Fairfax's lines, we observe, extended "from Headington Hill to Marston," several miles in advance of Holton House, then "from Marston," across the Cherwell, "and over from that to the Isis on the north side of...