That which is best worthy of love in thy Husband is that of the image of Christ he bears. Look on that, and love it best, and all the rest for that. I pray for thee and him; do so for me.
My service and dear affections to the General and Generaless. I hear she is very kind to thee; it adds to all other obligations. I am thy dear Father,
Bridget Ireton is now Twenty-two. Her Sister Claypole (Elizabeth Cromwell) is five years younger. They were both wedded last Spring. ‘Your Friends at Ely’ will indicate that the Cromwell Family was still resident in that City;[2] though, I think, they not long afterwards removed to London. Their first residence here was King-street, Westminster;[3] Oliver for the present lodges in Drury Lane: fashionable quarters both, in those times.
General Fairfax had been in Town only three days before, attending poor Essex’s Funeral: a mournful pageant, consisting of ‘both the Houses, Fairfax and all the Civil and Military Officers then in Town, the Forces of the City, a very great number of coaches and multitudes of people’; with Mr. Vines to preach;—regardless of expense, 5,000l. being allowed for it.[4]
The intricate Scotch negotiations have at last ended. The paying of the Scots their first instalment, and getting them
- ↑ ‘A Copy of Oliver Cromwell’s Letter to his Daughter Ireton, exactly taken from the Original.’ Harleian Mss. no. 6988, fol. 224 (not mentioned in Harleian Catalogue).—In another Copy sent me, which exactly corresponds, is this Note: ‘Memo: The above Lettr of Oliver Cromwell Jn° Caswell Mercht of London had from his Mother Linington, who had it from old Mrs Warner, who liv’d with Oliver Cromwell’s Daughter.——— And was Copied from the Original Letter, which is in the hands of John Warner Esqr of Swanzey, by Chas Norris, 25th Mar: 1749.’
- ↑ See also Appendix, No. 8, last Letter there (Note to Third Edition).
- ↑ Cromwelliana, p. 60.
- ↑ Rushworth, vi. 239; Whitlocke, p. 230.
