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SELECT BIOGRAPHIES.

CROMWELL

AND

BUNYAN.

BY

ROBERT SOUTHEY, Esq., LL.D.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1844.

THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC L

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1903

LONDON:

Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and SONS, Stamford Street.

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Story of Sir Richard Cromwell and Henry VIII.

Lands in Huntingdonshire granted to Sir Richard Cromwell
Henry Cromwell knighted by Queen Elizabeth

Robert Cromwell, the father of the Protector

Sir Oliver Cromwell

Marriage of Robert Cromwell

Birth of the Protector

Traditions at Huntingdon

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Educated at the Free Grammar School of Huntingdon
Plays the part of 'Tactus' in the comedy of 'Lingua'
Curious extract from 'Lingua'

Story of the 'gigantic figure'

Story of Cromwell and Prince Charles in 1604

Value of traditionary anecdotes

Removed to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Placed at Lincoln's Inn

Returns to reside on his paternal property

Low course of life led by Cromwell at this period

Petitions for a commission of lunacy against his maternal uncle, Sir

Thomas Steward

Marries Elizabeth Bourchier.

Returned to King Charles's first parliament for the borough of Hun

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Returned a second time for Huntingdon

Sells a part of his estate and stocks a grazing farm at St. Ives

His sheep-irons and other memorials of him at St. Ives in 1784

Death of Sir Thomas Steward

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Removes to the glebe-house in the city of Ely

Acquires the popular title of "Lord of the Fens"

State of England at this time.

Proposed colony called 'Say-brooke'

Letter to Mrs. St. John

A common 66

spokesman for sectaries" at this period

* From the Quarterly Review, No. L.

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