Oliver Cromwell, died September 3, 1658. Cromwell, English Civil War politician and soldier, regicide of King Charles I of England, and Lord Protector of the Commonwealth, 1599-1658. With his autograph and seal. Within a frame decorated with vignettes of skull and cross bones, chains and executioner’s axe, a man hanging from a gibbet at Tyburn, a condemned man on a sled, the Tower of London, Newgate Prison. Copperplate engraving by Robert Cooper, portrait engraved by Burnet Reading, from James Caulfield’s The High Court of Justice, London, 1820.

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