The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: on the Saturday following. The night before Saturday his poor Sister, though narrowly watched, smuggled him some poison: he went to bed, saying, Well, this is the last time I shall go to bed; the attendants heard him snore heavily, and then cease; they looked, and he lay dead. ' He was of that wretched sect called Soul-Sleepers, who believe that the soul falls axleep at death: '1 a gloomy, far-misguided man. They buried him on Tower-hill with due ignominy, and there he rests; with none but Frantic-Anabaptist Sexby, or Deceptive-Presbyterian Titus, to sing his praise.2 Next Friday, Friday the 20th, which was Thanksgiving Day, ' the Honourable House, after hearing two Sermons at Margaret's ' Westminster, partook of a most princely Entertainment, ' by invitation from his Highness, at Whitehall. ' After dinner his High- ' ness withdrew to the Cockpit; and there entertained them with ' rare music, both of voices and instruments, till the evening;' s his Highness being very fond of music. In this manner end, once more, the grand Assassination projects, Spanish-Invasion projects; unachievable even the Preface of them;?and now we will speak of something else. LETTER CCXVII.; SPEECHES VII.?XIV KINGSHIP This Second Protectorate Parliament, at least while the fermenting elements or ' hundred Excluded Members' are held aloof from it, unfolds itself to us as altogether reconciled to the rule of Oliver, or even right thankful for it; and really striving 1 Cromwelliana, p. 162. s' Equal to a Roman in virtue, ' says the noisy Pamphlet Killing no Murder, which seems to have been written by Sexby; though Titus, as adroit King's-Flunkey at an after-period, saw good to claim it. A Pamphlet much noised-of in those months and afterwards; recommendation of persons to assassinate Cr...