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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vale-Blake, Euphemia 1824- (search)
Vale-Blake, Euphemia 1824- Author; born in Rye, Sussex, England, May 7, 1824; came to the United States early in life; received a private education; and married Daniel S. Blake in 1863. She wrote History of Newburyport, Mass.; Arctic experiences, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Westminster Abbey. (search)
the extreme east of Henry VII.'s Chapel, and of which the windows are still full of the significant emblems placed there by the royal builder. Here lay for a time the body of one of the most remarkable men and righteous rulers whom England has ever produced—the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell. In the chapel also lay his venerable mother, Elizabeth Cromwell, his sister, Mrs. Desborough, and others of his family. Here, too, or in other parts of the abbey, once lay the mortal bodies of Admiral Blake, one of the greatest of England's seamen; of Sir Thomas May, the translator of Lucan, and historian of the Long Parliament; of Pym and Strode and Bradshaw and Ireton. It is a shameful and too familiar fact that the bodies of Cromwell, Bradshaw, and Ireton were exhumed and hung on the gallows at Tyburn, and that their heads— but not until they had quite done with them, as Carlyle says— were stuck on pikes at the top of Westminster Hall. Others of the commonwealth personages, to the numb<