Dick Move

Well,He was a right old party pooper....he even banned Christmas during his dictatorship..."what am I getting for Christmas daddy?"..."sod all,my son...but look here...see if you can have a game of footy with the kings head!"

No. It's made up.

After the fall of Colchester, Fairfax ordered Rainsborough to march north to the siege of Pontefract Castle, intending to place him in command of Parliament's forces in Yorkshire, thus keeping him well away from the centre of political power in London. The Parliamentarian commander in the region, Sir Henry Cholmley, bitterly objected to Rainsborough's appointment and refused to accept his authority. Rainsborough and the Tower Guards quartered at Doncaster while the wrangling continued. On the night of 30 October 1648, a party of four Royalists from Pontefract gained admission to Rainsborough's lodgings and attempted to take him prisoner. Rainsborough refused to accompany them and in the ensuing struggle, he was run through with a sword and killed. Many believed that Sir Henry Cholmley was implicated in Rainsborough's death because Cholmley's troops had failed to prevent the cavaliers from leaving Pontefract or from entering Doncaster and finding Rainsborough's lodgings. Among the Levellers, it was later alleged that Cromwell himself was implicated.

As the senior Leveller supporter in the Army, Rainsborough's death was a severe setback for the movement. His funeral in London occasioned a massive Leveller-led political demonstration, with thousands of mourners wearing ribbons of sea-green in his memory, which was thereafter adopted as the Levellers' colour.

(http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/rainsborough.htm)