Memoirs of the Protectorate-House of Cromwell; Deduced from an Early Period, and Continued Down to the Present Time Collected Chiefly from Original Papers and Records, with Proofs and Illustrations Together with an Appendix, Volume 2 by Mark Noble (Paperback / softback, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1784 edition. Excerpt: ...upon a pole. i Ireton was the moft artful, dark, deliberate vnan of all the republicans, by whom he was in the higheft degree beloved, they revered him as a foldier, a flatefman, and faint; there is one but will allow him to be an able, though t a virtuous ftatefman; few will w regard him as a-faint; if we believe the following anecdote, his perfonal courage may be queftioned, or elfe his adherence to his religious principles was very great; for when he had grofsly affronted mr. Hollis in parlement, the felf and wife, was placed over his grave, which was fooa after mutilated-, and, at the rcftoratioTi, entirely deftroyed; upon it was an epitaph to his praife, written in a flile much above the common cant of the times. Heath's flagellum, fays, Ireton was buried february 6, and that his father-in-law, Oliver Cromwell, afterwards proteftor, walked as chief-mourner, attended with the members of parlement, in black. Ludlow fays, that Cromwell firft (hewed his ambition and ftatc over others, in this pompous funeral of his fon-in-law. latter 4 latter challenged him, but he refufed it, faying, Nu. xxv.' it was againft his confcience-, and when mr. Hollis pulled him by the fe, and told him, that if his confcience would t keep him from giving men fatisfadion, it Jhould keep him from provoking them; yet he filently put up the affront. It muft be faid in his praife, that though he had objection to delicacies of high lifef, yet he; abfolutely perfifted in refufing grants of the public money; r had his family the two thoufand pounds a year offered him out of the confiscated eftate of the duke of Buckingham till his death, when the parlement, out of gra. titude for the fervices he had done them, and to oblige Cromwell, fettled it upon his widow...