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LONDON

	CITY OF WESTMINSTER - 4
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	St Margaret's Westminster
	Underground: Westminster Circle and District Lines No Photography! However I was readily given permission to take photographs when I visited a few years ago. I only had a small pocket camera, which ran out of battery power before I had finished, so the quality is relatively poor. I do not know what the policy is now as many of the photographs are now on the Abbey's website and it is possible that they are now more strict.


Thomas (1603) & Margaret (1586) Arnway	Dorothy Stafford (1604) widow of William Stafford	Blanch Parrye (1595/6)	Cornelius Vandun (1577)	Hugh Haughton (1616) and daughter Elizabeth (1615) His wife Frances and other daughter, also Frances, also appear. Elizabeth holds a skull.	Laurence Womack (1685/86) Bishop of St David's Attrib to Grinling Gibbons


James Palmer BD (1659/60) Vicar of St Brides Attrib to Joshua Marshall	Rev William Conway MA Canon of Westminster by R C Belt 1878	Sarah English (1720) Attrib to Robert Hartshorne	John Churchill (1715) Master Carpenter	Mary Brocas (1654) Attrib to Joshua Marshall


Sir Peter Parker (1814) Bt Sailor. KIA America Signed by C Prosperi	Robert Stewart (1714) Designed by James Gibbs; attrib to Andrew Carpenter	Dr Patrick Colquhorn LL D (1820) By C H Smith	Sir John Cross (1762)	Sir Francis Egoike (1662)

There are many more monuments in St Margaret's Westminster but unfortunately I had neither the time nor the battery power to continue this survey

   Left: This brass to Colonel (or Admiral or General-at-Sea) Robert Blake was fitted to the wall inside the church in 1888. Above is a stained glass window in his memory. There is also a stone tablet in Westminster Abbey in his memory dating from 1945.

   Right: This tablet was erected by the Cromwell Associstion on the outside wall of St Margarets in memory of those of the Commonwealth who had been buried in Westminster Abbey. On the orders of King Charles II they were removed from their graves and buried in a common pit in the church yard, a disgraceful and spiteful act. Some of these - and this list includes a child, three women and three clergymen - had nothing whatsoever to do with the trial and execution of Charles I.

   The bodies of Oliver Cromwell, John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton ⁻¹ were treated in an even more disgusting manner: at the order of the King: their bodies were removed from their graves and hanged at Tyburn; they were then beheaded and the bodies buried under the gallows. The heads were set on spikes on top of Westminster Hall; only Oliver Cromwell's head was actually recovered and the story of this will be told elsewhere.

Links to Details of Most of the Names on the Tablet
Col Robert Blake Denis Bond Col Nicholas Boscawen Mary Bradshaw (wife of John Bradshaw) Sir William Constable Elizabeth Cromwell (Oliver Cromwell's mother) Col Richard Deane	Jane Desborough Dr Isaac Dorislaus Anne Fleetwood ⁻ ² Thomas Hesilrige ⁻ ³ Col Humphrey Mackworth Stephen Marshall Thomas May	Col John Meldrum Col Edward Popham John Pym Humphrey Salwey William Strong William Stroud Dr William Twiss

⁻ ¹ Henry Ireton was son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell, and played a major part in the even leading to the trial and execution of the King ⁻ ² Following Henry Ireton's early death, his widow Bridget, Oliver Cromwell's daughter, married Charles Fleetwood. Anne Fleetwood was their daughter who could have been no more than ten when she died. ⁻ ³ Thomas Hesilrige was the younger brother of Sir Arthur Hasilrige , one of the 'Five Members' Charles I attempted to arrest.