Very interesting, if creepy. I never knew this before!
....”...On this anniversary date of King Charles I’s beheading, the two-years-dead corpse of the late Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell was hung in chains at Tyburn and then beheaded....”
gad....that must have stunk to high heaven...! I’m a bit surprised that there was enough of him left to hang and then behead.....
The story of what happened to Cromwell’s head afterward is also pretty interesting. It was displayed on a stake outside Westminster Abbey for 24 years, later was an attraction in a freak show, passed through several more hands, and wasn’t finally buried until 1960.