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    a "moral certainty" that the head was Oliver Cromwell's, based on a study of the head and other evidence. Oliver Cromwell, born on 25 April 1599, led the...
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    throne, after which Cromwell's body was removed from its resting place in Westminster Abbey and displayed at Tyburn. Cromwell's head was placed on a spike...
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    Fitzgibbons, Jonathan (2008). Cromwell's Head. Kew: The National Archives. ISBN 978-1-905615-38-4. "London Bridge head spikes: From 1300 to 1660". London...
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    Sir Oliver Cromwell (c. 1562 – 28 August 1655) was an English landowner, lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between...
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  • Charles I to Parliament (in 1647) "handed ... over to Oliver Cromwell and his warts" refers to Cromwell's famous instruction to Peter Lely to paint him "warts...
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    England, Scotland and Ireland and the son of the first Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell. Following his father's death in 1658, Richard became Lord Protector...
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    Elizabeth Cromwell (née Bourchier; 1598 –1665) was the wife of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, and...
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  • Really Oliver Cromwell's Head? Well . . ". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 11 August 2020. Fitzgibbons, Jonathan (2008). Cromwell's head. Kew:...
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    grandson of Henry Cromwell, contributed a great number of his grandfather's letters); Oliver Cromwell's Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell, and his sons...
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    appointed Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth. Cromwell died in September 1658 and was succeeded by his son Richard Cromwell. Richard...
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