At the charge of treason Cromwell flung his cap on the ground with a passionate cry of despair.

"This then," he exclaimed, "is my guerdon for the services I have done! On your consciences, I ask you, am I a traitor ?" Then with a sudden sense that all was over he bade his foes make quick work, and not leave him to languish in prison.

Quick work was made.

A few days after his arrest he was attainted in Parliament, and at the close of July a burst of popular applause hailed his death on the scaffold.
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