On the twelfth anniversary of Charles I’s execution, the corpses of Oliver Cromwell, John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton are exhumed, publicly hanged at Tyburn for several hours, and then decapitated, for the crime of regicide. The heads of Bradshaw and Henry Ireton are placed on pikes at London Bridge. Cromwell’s head is displayed on a pike at Westminster Hall. Their mutilated bodies are dumped into a garbage pit.
[restored 10/12/2024]
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References:
Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, four volumes. (London: Cassell, 1956-58), 2:332.
John Bradshaw | Westminster Abbey
www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/john-bradshaw
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