e very
names of the Cromwells will become far more odious than ever Needham
could make the Heroicks'.

p. 349 _cuckold the Ghost of Old Oliver._ The intrigue between
Cromwell and Lambert's wife is affirmed in '_Newes from the New
Exchange; or, the Commonwealth of Ladies ..._ London; printed in the
year of women without grace, 1650' (4to). Noble, in his _Memoirs of
the Cromwell Family_ (8vo, London, 1787, 3rd edit., Vol. II,
p. 369), says that the lady 'was an elegant and accomplished woman',
she was 'suppos'd to have been partial to Oliver the Protector.'
A scarce poem, _Iter Australe_ (London, 1660, 4to), declares of
Cromwell that some

Would have him a David, 'cause he went
To Lambert's wife, when he was in his tent.

Some six months before Cromwell's death, when Lambert visited him,
Noll 'fell on his neck, kissed him, inquired of dear Johnny for his
jewel (so he called Mrs. Lambert) and for all his children by name.'
Cromwell's immoralities in youth, when a brewer at Ely, were
notorious. Although the parish registers of S. John's, Huntingdon,
have been tampered with, the following, under the years 1621 and
1628, remain: 'Oliverus Cromwell reprehensus erat coram tota
Ecclesia pro factis.' and 'Hoc anno Oliverus Cromwell fecit
penitentiam coram tota ecclesia.' An attempt has been made to erase
these.

+Act I: Scene ii+

p. 354 _Tony._ Anthony Ashley Cooper; afterwards first Earl of
Shaftesbury.

p. 357 _Wallingford House._ Stood on the site of the present
Admiralty. It was so called from Sir William Knollys, Baron
Wallingford, Treasurer of the Household to Elizabeth and James I.
After Cromwell's death the General Council of the Officers of the
Army (Wallingford House Party) met here. Fleetwood actually lived in
the house. At the Restoration it reverted to the Duke of Buckingham.
The Crown purchased it 1680, and the Admiralty was built about 1720.

+Act II: Scene i+

p. 361 _Cobler's-Stall._ Hewson, says Wood, had originally been 'an
honest shoemaker in Westminster.'

p. 362 _Conventickling._ Conventicle was accentuated upon the third
syllable. This, of course, led to innuendo, cf. 1 _Hudibras_ (1663)
Canto ii, 437:

He used to lay about and stickle
Like ram or bull at conventicle

and Dryden, in _The Medal_ (1682):--

A tyrant theirs; the heaven their priesthood paints
A conventicle of gloomy sullen saints