Oliver Cromwell led the charge in the beheading of England's King Charles I in 1649.
But little did he know that his own head would soon roll.
And roll and roll-for the next three hundred years across the Commonwealth.
The execution of Charles I ended the monarchy, and Cromwell became the Lord Protector of England until his own death from natural causes in 1658.
His body was embalmed and buried in Westminster Abbey, only to be exhumed by King Charles II three years later.
The new king had .
Curious Publications The embalmed head of oliver cromwell: a memoir: the complete history of the head of the ruler of the commonwealth of england, scotland and ireland wit, paperback/marc hartzman
