Cromwell's noble letter to his friend Colonel Walton, written three
days after the battle of Marston Moor, was sold in the Morrison collection at Sotheby's on Tuesday for the sum of £300. Cromwell began with a brief account of the greet victory in which "our own horse beat the Prince's home" and "God made them stubble to our swords." He then went on to tell Walton that his eldest son had been killed
"Sir, you knew my own trials this way : but the Lord supported me with this that the Lord took him into the happiness we all pant for and live for. There is your precious child full of glory, never to know sin or sorrow any more. Ho was a gallant young man, exceedingly gracious. God give you his comfort. Before his death he was so full of comfort that to Frank Russel and myself he could not express it, 'It was so great above his pain.'"
We arc very glad to learn from the Timer that this fine letter, with throe others by Cromwell, was purchased by a lady for the Cromwell collection at Chequers, the future country home of the Prime Minis- ter, The sword which Cromwell carried at Marston Moor has long been at Chequers.
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