Upon which the colonel stepped a little back and hastily shut the door, which made Oliver suppose he was going to be assassinated ; but the other, taking out his papers, said to him, 'Cou-in, 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 o-eneration of them that no lime will be able to deface.' After a pause Oliver said, 'Cousin, I desire you will give me till night 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 iio other answer lo carry to the prince, tor the council of otiicers had been seeking God, as he had also done, and it was resolved by them all that the king must die. With this unhappy messnge he returned into Holland again, where he continued in thai service for many years, perhaps during the remainder of his life. By a letter dated Nov. ^|, 1653, from Jongeshall to William, Earl of Nassau, it appears that Col. John Cromwell was then in Holhuid. Through the ill behavior of his wife Abigail, he was from the most afliuent circumstances reduced to the brink of ruin, i^y his wife (continues Noble,) Col, Cro.nwell had a daughter Joan, baptized September 23, 1634, and perhaps other chili rcn,"^ In 16S6 we find John Cromwell'^ of the town of W^estchester