36 RECORDS OF OLD TIMES 



was excepted from the Act of Indemnity, and always 

 exulted in the part he took in the death of the King. 

 He was executed at Charing Cross. At the scaffold 

 he said, ' Gentlemen, I stand here a spectacle to 

 God, and to angels, and to men. To you I have 

 something to say : In the beginning of these troubles 

 I, with many others, was dissatisfied; I saw the 

 dangers and the approach of Popery in a great 



measure coming on us ; I saw ' The Sheriff and 



Under-sheriff interrupted him. ' 'Tis hard that an 

 Englishman hath not liberty to speak, and that you 

 will not hear the last words of a dying man.' He 

 then prayed to God, and thanked Him that he had 

 engaged in a cause not to be repented of. On his 

 prayer being ended, he was cast off the ladder. 

 Colonel Jones and Colonel John Wood were also 

 executed at the same time ; they were hanged, drawn 

 and quartered. 



I find it recorded that after the battle of Naseby 

 Cromwell went to Dinton Hall on his return, 

 probably on the route to Chequers Court, near 

 Ellesborough, the residence of his daughter, Mrs. 

 Russell, and that he left behind him his sword as 

 a property, not to any particular family, but to the 

 mansion of Dinton for ever. Colonel Goodall writes 

 me 'that the sword is still in his possession. It is 

 a beautifully balanced weapon, with the name of the 

 celebrated maker, " Andrea Ferrara," on both 

 sides of the blade.' Cromwell most likely went also 

 to Dinton to visit his friend Simon Mayne, at that 

 time owner of the Hall in the same parish. Wal- 

 dridge was then inhabited by Sir Richard Ingoldsby, 



