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Cromwell's Deathmask
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The death mask of Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector, who died in 1658. The diarist John Evelyn recorded that his funeral was 'the joyfullest funeral that ever I saw for there was none that cried but dogs'. Cromwell's body was exhumed at the Restoration of the Monarchy and publicly hanged at Tyburn gallows.

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