28 DECEMBER 1934, Page 19

A WORD ON CROMWELL

[To the Editor of TOE SPECTATOR.]

SIR,—I was surprised in Mr. Nevinson's review to find Oliver Cromwell amongst the Saints, but still more to find him classed amongst the tinkers. So far from being of " poorish birth," his uncle was The Golden Knight of Hinchingbrooke, who entertained Royalty lavishly. A local tradition was that Oliver and Charles quarrelled there as boys, and that Oliver knocked the prince down.—Yours faithfully, F. GERTRUDE LATHAM. The Old Rectory, Offord Cluny, liuntingthm.