Note 583 — Chapter XVIII
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Clarendon (Hist., 862), says that the day of Cromwell's death was memorable for a storm, which he describes as very violent. Heath says it was reported that he was carried away in the storm the day before. (Chronicle, 408.) The fact is, that this storm, of which both the friends and the enemies of Cromwell made so much, really occurred on Monday, the 30th of August, four days before his death. Barwick, in a letter to Charles II., mentions it as occurring on the 30th. Thurloe, vii. 416. Ludlow, in his Memoirs, does the same, ii. 610. In the title to Waller's poem on the Protector, it is said that it alludes "to the storm that happened about that time."