On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 17:38:42 -0000, "David Hill"
wrote:

Did you know?
Quinine was called the Jesuit bark by the protestants in Cromwell's day and
thus was not allowed in England.
With the result that when Oliver Cromwell caught malaria there was no
effective treatment and he died of it.
no I didn't but this was probably called "a good thing".

Do you know that the remains of Oliver Cromwell's body is in a leather
coffin in an attic in North Yorkshire and his head in Cambridge.

http://www.elyrics.net/go/m/Monty_Py...iver_Cromwell/