Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 19:21:58 -0400
To: tim@southfrm.demon.co.uk
From: Patrick Payne <papayne@atl.mediaone.net>
Subject: Re: Ashby-de-la-Zouche

At 11:57 PM 6/3/01 +0100, you wrote:

>More interesting info that had not got to me.  I had Wm Steward but no
>wife.   Do you have any reference for Catherine Payne?  (And don't tell
>me it's in "The King and the Gentleman"!)

Dear Tim,

In 1661, King Charles II ordered several bodies to be exhumed at Henry the
7th and other Chapels, to be buried outside the gates. These remains
included Elizabeth CROMWELL. Before the disinterment of her remains,
however, the body of her son, Oliver CROMWELL, buried 26 Sept. 1658, had
been exhumed and hung for public viewing at Tyburn. (Payne family notes)

The following document and the subsequent note, are copied from "The
Marriage, Baptismal and Burial Registers of Westminster Abbey," collected
and published in London, 1876, by Col. Joseph L. Chester, LL.D., the late
distinguished American genealogist.

The Royal Warrant for the Disinterment of Certain Commonwealth Personages.


It is his Maiesties express pleasure and command that you cause the bodies
of the severall persons undernamed, wch have bin unwarrantably interred in
Henry the 7th and other chappels and places wthin the Collegiate Church of
Westminster since the year 1641, to be forthwith taken up, and buried in
some place of the churchyard adioning to ye said church, whereof you may
not faile, and for so doing this shall be yr warrant. Dated at ye Court at
Whitehall Sept. 9, 1661. "Henry 7th Chappel." Dr. Isaac Dorislaus, Coll.
Richard DEAN(E), Mrs. Elizabeth CROMWELL, Coll. Humphrey Mackworth, Sr.
William CONSTABLE, Thomas May, and fifteen others

The Note attached to the document of 1661 states, "The mother of Oliver
CROMWELL, "The Protector," daugther of William STEWARD, of the City of Ely,
Esq., by his second wife, Catherine, daughter of Thomas PAINE, of Castle
Acre, Norfolk, Esq. She appears to have been a second child of this name,
and baptized at Holy Trinity, Ely, 28th October, 1565. She married there
10th Feb. 1588/9, William LYNNE, gent., who was buried there 17th March
1589/90. She married secondly, about a year after her first husband's
death, Robert CROMWELL, of Huntingdon, Esq., by whom she was mother of the
Protector, and who was buried at All Saints', Huntingdon, 24th June 1617.
If the above dates are correct, she had just entered her ninetieth year.
She died 18th November, 1654. and was buried in great state, contrary to
her express desire. Before the disinterment of her remains, the body of her
son, Oliver CROMWELL, buried 26th September, 1658, had been exhumed and
hung at Tyburn. Page 521.

I have also had communication with the Librarian of the PEPYS Library,
Magdalen College, Cambridge, Dr. Luckett and his assitant, Aude
Fitzsimmons, who agree with Col. Chester's findings, as do some of the
Cromwellian organizations I have contacted.
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It looks very possible that she was, in her issue, heir toher father.