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 the globe, denoting principality upon the head purple velvet cap, formed with ermines, signifying royalty behind the head there was a rich char of state of tissued gold; and upon the cushion which my thereon, was placed an imperial crown set with precious stones. The body my upon of state covered with a large pall of black velvet, under which there was spread a fine Hollanskeet upon six tools of tissued cloth of gold. O the sides of the bed of state was placed a rich suit of complete armour, representing Cromwell's command is general; at the feet stood his crest, according to the custom of ancient monuments.

The expence of this gorgeous funeral, of which by the way, but a small portion was ever paid amounted to £25,000.

In the year 1660, the bodies of Cromwell, Bradshaw-(president of the court which condemned Charles), and were, by a vote of the House of Commons, torn from the graves, and drawn two several carts from Westminster to the Relilon him in Holborn, where they remained a night. Bradshaw's badly was purposely left not the morning following, which was the anniversary of the king's execution. The three bodies were then conveyed upon sledges to the gallows, take one of their coffins, hanged upon the three several angles as the go et till sunset, then beheaded, an their trunks thrown into a hole at the foot of the gallows. The heads were afterwards set p poles upon the top of Westminster Hall, when Oliver's remained or upwards of twenty year afterward.