Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria . indecent manner of burying his nephews, whom hehad murdered, gave his chaplain orders to dig up thebodies, and to inter them in consecrated ground; and asthe man died soon after, the place of their burial remainedunknown, and the bodies could never be found by anysearch which Henry could make for them. Yet in thereign of Charles II., when there was occasion to removesome stones, and to dig in the very spot which was men-tioned as the place of their first interment, the bones oftwo persons were there found, which by th
Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria . indecent manner of burying his nephews, whom hehad murdered, gave his chaplain orders to dig up thebodies, and to inter them in consecrated ground; and asthe man died soon after, the place of their burial remainedunknown, and the bodies could never be found by anysearch which Henry could make for them. Yet in thereign of Charles II., when there was occasion to removesome stones, and to dig in the very spot which was men-tioned as the place of their first interment, the bones oftwo persons were there found, which by their size exactlycorresponded to the age of Edward and his brother; theywere concluded with certainty to be the remains of thoseprinces, and were interred vmder a marble monument, by 250 THE COURT OF ENGLAND. orders of King Charles. Perhaps Eichards chaplain haddied before he found an opportunity of executing his mas-ters commands; and the bodies being supposed to be al-ready removed, a diligent search was not made for themby Henry in the place where they had been |UJj I fr= en CROMWELL DISSOLVING THE LONG PAELIAMENT. (SEE THE PRINT.) Oliver Cromwell was the son of Robert Cromwell, M. the Parliament of 1593, and his wife Elizabeth, daugh-ter of Sir Richard Stewart. He was born at Huntingdon,April 25, 1599, and named after his uncle and godfatherSir OUver Cromwell. He entered Sidney College, Cam-bridge, April 23, 1616, where he remained a little morethan a year. On the death of his father, June, 1617,he was removed from the University l)y his mother, whowished him to enter Lincolns Inn, that he might followthe profession of the law. Having completed his twenty-first year, he was mariied, August 22, 1620, to Elizabeth,daughter of Sir James Bourchier. In 1629, the House ofCommons having resolved itself into a grand committee onreligion, Cromwell made a speech calling attention to the preaching of flat popery; but, befoi-e steps could betaken to prevent it, the king d
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