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To: Mike Darancette; IronJack
Now if they could only locate the body of Oliver Cromwell

There's a plaque in the floor near the altar where he used to be buried, before Charles II's men dug it up, hanged it, beheaded it, and if I'm not mistaken, burned the body. There's no body left to find.

22 posted on 12/01/2005 8:38:45 PM PST by wimpycat (Hyperbole is the opiate of the activist wacko.)
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To: wimpycat
dug it up, hanged it, beheaded it, and if I'm not mistaken, burned the body

I've got an ancestor that was dispatched in a like manner for the regicide of Charles I.

27 posted on 12/01/2005 8:51:42 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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To: wimpycat

They didn't burn it. They supposedly interred the dismembered torso under Tyburn gallows, along with the remains of his fellow "conspirators." But there remains some doubt, at least in some peoples' minds, as to whether the body of Cromwell was even among those disinterred after the Restoration.


36 posted on 12/02/2005 5:19:46 AM PST by IronJack
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