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Title: The roll-call of Westminster Abbey
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Smith, A. Murray, Mrs
Subjects: Westminster Abbey
Publisher: London : Smith, Elder, & Co.
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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he well-known parliamentary general, CharlesFleetwood, and their child was buried here. John Bradshaw, President of the Council which condemnedCharles to death, must have been a familiar figure in theprecincts during his lifetime, and his unquiet spirit is said towalk the Triforium, where he had made himself a retreat forquiet study. Bradshaw in fact leased the Deanery from theCommonwealth for ten years, and that part of the south-west tower above the baptistery roof, which has the remainsof a fireplace, put in originally for the use of the work-men, is supposed to have been his book-room ; a stairdescends from it to the passage leading into the Deanery.According to the royalists, Bradshaw used to hide in thisinaccessible place from the enemies who dogged his steps,and they made a gloomy picture of his despairing death,his conscience racked by the pangs of remorse. As amatter of fact there is no evidence that Bradshaw everregretted his share in the royal execution, and it is said that
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BRADSHAWS ROOM IX THE TRIFORIUM See p. 170 WORTHIES OF COMMONWEALTH 171 just before he left the world, he declared that if theking were to be tried and condemned again, he would bethe first man that would do it. He was an overbearingman, who loved power for its own sake ; his will oftenclashed with the Protectors, and there was no love lostbetween the two at the end of their lives. In the Deaneryis a small portrait of Bradshaw, wearing his high-crownedbeaver hat, which was lined with steel to ward off blows,and beneath it Dean Stanley has inscribed the quotation : When Bradshaw bullied in his broad-brimmed hat.This much-abused man died of a quartan ague less thana year before the Restoration, and was the last of themagnates of the Commonwealth buried in the Cromwellvault, the last state funeral ordered by Parliament for a verylong time, till in fact we come to the burials of modernstatesmen or the memorials to naval and military heroes.While Clarendon, and other men of his way of thin

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