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Hey Ya'll my first post. I love period pieces and I grew up in Fairfax County VA and always wondered about the man for whom the couunty was named...I was somewhat shocked when I saw the film Cromwell to learn Thomas Fairfax was not a cavalier. Virginia refused to recognize Cromwell and remained loyal to Charles II in exile in France. The Cavaliers fled to Virginia . The Univ.of Virginia sports teams are The Cavaliers and Charles II gave the Commonwealth the title The Old Dominion as an acknowledement of Virginia's loyalty. I have long felt that the American Civil War was Part II of this conflict. Prior to the English war the Cromwell family were all packed up ready to sail to Plymouth, Mass. But he stayed and fought. The Royalists lost and many fled to Virginia....so the cavaliers went South and the Puritans went North....anyway I think the War Between the States was Part II. I'm so glad I stumbled upon the DVD and ordered it. A month ago I knew nothing of this film. I love the DVD and find Thomas Fairfax fascinating...

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I find it terribly interesting they dug up Cromwell's corpse and hung it where all could see... nasty!




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Not a unique instance as it happened every so often in history.
Look up "The Cadaver Synod", the _post-mortem_ trial of Pope Formosus. The pope that came after him had Formosus' body disinterred, dressed in its vestments, put on the witness stand, and put on trial. I won't give away the ending but its also "terribly interesting".

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I did read about Cromwell's rotten remains being displayed in a "romance" novel, "Forever Amber". He was hung up and just rotted away. I spent the summer of 1966 in England and stood on the spot where Charles was executed. His grandmother, Mary, Queen of Scots, met the same fate. The room had floor to ceiling windows - it's Whitehall Palace - and the scaffold was built right next to the windows - the windows were opened and out he stepped to the block. I live in Virginia and the Univ. of Virginia's teams are the "Cavaliers" Thomas Jefferson likely would not approve of the name LOL. Charles II , the Merry Monarch, gave Virginia the name, "The Old Dominion", because the Virginians refused to acknowlege Cromwell as Lord Protector and because many Cavalier refugees fled to Virginia to escape the civil war. I have always felt that the U.S. Civil War was the sequel to the English Civil War. Cromwell was packed up and ready to go to take his family to Boston and was talked out of it. I was born in D.C. (Walter Reed) and now live south of Richmond,just 100 miles down the road, old U.S. One. If you like battlefields we got'tem, the British burned Richmond, twice.... and then the @#**&#! Yankees lit us up - but we're still here. Ya'll come see us now.

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