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The boots
Cromwell's boots go under the hammer
Thu, November 19 2009

A pair of boots said to have been Oliver Cromwell's will be auctioned off in Donnington
 

A PAIR of boots said to have belonged to Oliver Cromwell go under the hammer in Donnington Priory next week.
The boots form part of a collection of items described by the auctioneers Dreweatt as forming “a quintessentially English country house sale.”
The leather boots, expected to fetch up to £500, form part of the collection of the late John Fane, a descendant of the 8th Earl of Westmorland.
They were displayed in the hall at Wormsley Park, Oxfordshire, where Mr Fane, who died last year, previously lived.
Dreweatts spokesman Will Richards described them as in “quite good condition and very sturdily made.”
The story that the boots belonged to the first Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, whose signature appears on Charles I’s death warrant, had been handed down the generations in Mr Fane’s family.
In addition, a previous owner of Wormsley Hall was a known parliamentarian and fellow signatory.
The sale is taking place on November 26.

 
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