On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 18:04:57 -0000, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:


"David Hill" wrote in message
...
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.

I didn't know that. Did he really die of malaria?

but it wasn't serious :-)

His body is in an attic in Newburgh Priory.