" CROMWELL," BY MR. MORLEY.
[To THR EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—According to the Right Hon. Mr. Morley, Lord Brook, when besieging Lichfield, was shot in a room. And he says nothing about the spot from which the bullet came. Tradition, and the late Canon Gresley, who wrote " The Siege of Lichfield," agree in stating that his Lordship fell when at the head of the Parliamentary troops, in Dam Street, and that Dumb Dyott fired from the Cathedral. The point is important. For Mr. Morley's account suggests an assassina- tion, while the other tells of legitimate war. And the weapon, still to be seen at Freeford, the home of the Dyotts, undoubtedly corroborates this view. On another incident in that war Mr. Morley is not accurate. For he tells us that Lord Essex escaped from Plymouth, leaving his army behind him, to take their chance. The fact is that his forces were hemmed in at Par, St. Blazey, and Lostwithiel, and that the ship which bore him away sailed from Fowey, all of which places are something like fifty miles from Plymouth.—I am,
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