Killing no murder: Alan Marshall recounts the tale of the men who tried to assassinate Oliver Cromwell.(Miles Sindercombe and Edward Sexby)

History Today | February 1, 2003| | Copyright

LORD PROTECTOR CROMWELL usually chose to go to Hampton Court on Fridays, bent upon spending his weekend in more salubrious surroundings than the noise and pollution of Whitehall. The road to the palace passed through a `narrow, dirty ... passage where coaches use to go but softly' and it was there that his assassins, led by the ex-soldier and Leveller Miles Sindercombe, planned their ambush in the autumn of 1656. Armed with guns loaded with twelve bullets apiece and other lead slugs, they intended was to fire these `strange engines' at the Protector's coach as he passed, ...

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