flung from their places; in the country great trees were
uprooted, corn-stacks levelled to the ground, and winter fruits
destroyed; whilst at sea ships sank to rise no more. This
memorable storm lasted all night, and continued until three
o'clock next afternoon, when Cromwell expired.

His body was immediately embalmed, but was of necessity interred
in great haste. Westminster Abbey, the last home of kings and
princes, was selected as the fittest resting-place for the
regicide. Though it was impossible to honour his remains by
stately ceremonials, his followers were not content to let the
occasion of his death pass with-out commemoration. They
therefore had a waxen image of him made, which they resolved to
surround with all the pomp and circumstances of royalty. For
this purpose they carried it to Somerset House--one of the late
King's palaces--and placed it on a couch of crimson velvet
beneath a canopy of state. Upon its shoulders they hung a purple
mantle, in its right hand they placed a golden sceptre, and by
its side they laid an imperial crown, probably the same which,
according to Welwood, the Protector had secretly caused to be
made and conveyed to Whitehall with a view to his coronation.
The walls and ceiling of the room in which the effigy lay were
covered by sable velvet; the passages leading to it crowded with
soldiery. After a few weeks the town grew tired of this sight,
when the waxen image was taken to another apartment, hung with
rich velvets and golden tissue, and otherwise adorned to
symbolize heaven, when it was placed upon a throne, clad "in a
shirt of fine Holland lace, doublet and breeches of Spanish
fashion with great skirts, silk stockings, shoe-strings and
gaiters suitable, and black Spanish leather shoes." Over this