Upon which the Colonel stepped a little back and hastily shut the door, which made Oliver supposed he was going to be assassinated ; but the other, taking out his papers, said to him, 'Cousin, this is no time to trifle with words, see here: -- it is now in your own power not only to make yourself, but your family, relations, and posterity happy and honorable for ever; otherwise, as they have changed their name before, from Williams to Cromwell, so now they must be forced to change it again ; for this act will bring such an ignominy upon the whole generation of them, that no time will be able to deface. After a pause Oliver said, 'Cousin, I desire you will give me till night

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to consider it, and do you go to your own inn and not to bed till you hear from me.'

"The Colonel retired, and at one o'clock in the morning he received a message that he might go to rest and expect no other answer to carry to the Prince ; for the council of officers had been seeking God, as he had also done, and it was resolved by them all that the King must die. With this unhappy message he returned to Holland again, where he continued in that service for many years, perhaps during the remainder of his life. By a letter dated Nov. J", 1653, from Jongeshall to William, Earl of Nassau, it appears that Col. John Cromwell was then in Holland. Through the ill behavior of his wife Abigail, he was -- from the most affluent circumstances -- reduced to the brink of ruin. By his wife (continues Noble,) Col. Cromwell had a daughter Joan, baptized Sept. 28, 1634, and perhaps other children.""