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Thus fell, suddenly and from an enormous height, but, by a rare fortune, without any hurt or injury, the family of the Cromwells.

Richard continued to possess an estate, which was moderate, and burdened too with a large debt, which he had contracted for the interment of his father.

After the restoration, though he remained unmolested, he thought proper to travel for some years; and at Pezenas, in Languedoc, he was introduced under a borrowed name to the prince of Conti.

That prince, talking of English affairs, broke out into admiration of Cromwell's courage and capacity.

"But as for that poor, pitiful fellow Richard," said he, "what has become of him?
How could he be such a blockhead as to reap no greater benefit from all his father's crimes and successes ?" Richard extended his peaceful and quiet life to an extreme old age, and died not till the latter end of Queen Anne's reign.