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Oliver Cromwell

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Oliver Cromwell

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Auction Date:2012 Apr 18 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
English soldier and statesman (1599–1658) who led Parliamentary forces in the English Civil War, waged war against Scotland and Ireland and, in 1653, following the execution of Charles I, became Lord Protector of Great Britain, a position he held until his death in 1658. After a yearlong reign by his son, Richard, the British throne was restored (to Charles II) and Cromwell’s body was exhumed and posthumously ‘executed.’ ALS in Old English, signed “O Cromwell,” one page, 7.25 x 11.5, March 8, 1648. Letter to his son Richard’s future father-in-law. In full: “Yours I have received; and have given farther instructions to this Bearer, Mr. Stapylton, to treat with you about the business in agitation between your Daughter and my Son. I am engaged to you for all your civilities and respects already manifested. I trust there will be a right understanding between us, and a good conclusion; and though I cannot particularly remember the things spoken of at Farnham, to which your Letter seems to refer me, yet I doubt not but I have sent the offer of such things now as will give mutual satisfaction to us both. My attendance upon public affairs will not give me leave to come down unto you myself; I have sent unto you this Gentleman with my mind. I salute Mrs. Mayor, though unknown, with the rest of your Family. I commit you with the progress of the Business, to the Lord; and rest.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, scattered light toning and foxing, and two wax remnants to left edge.

Cromwell was understandably occupied with “public affairs” in March of 1648: Royalist sentiment was spreading and the Second Civil War was soon to begin. Contrary to his letter, in March he did visit the letter’s recipient, Richard Mayor, at the Great Lodge of Merdon in Winchester to discuss the marriage of Mayor’s daughter Dorothy and Cromwell’s twenty-one-year-old son Richard. Marrying off his children into godly matrimony was a priority for the Puritan father, and he took his responsibility to arrange a match seriously. Although his son had another more sophisticated prospect, Cromwell preferred the more modest Dorothy “because although the other be very greater yet I see difficulties, and not that assurance of godliness... If God please to bring it about, the consideration of piety in the [Mayor] parents, and such hopes of the gentlewoman in that respect, make the business to me a great mercy.” After protracted financial negotiations accompanying the marital arrangements, Richard married Dorothy in 1649 and they had nine children together. Richard would later briefly succeed his father as Lord Protector, but after he was deposed he left England for Europe, never to see his wife again. An exceedingly rare letter.
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