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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Death mask. Interesting. And I think that Cromwell was beheaded, if memory serves me correctly. That would make it easier for the artist, or whatever he was called, to do a death mask, because there wouldn't be any body attached to the head to get in the way of his work.
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You might be thinking of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's enforcer, who was beheaded, brutally, after several whacks missed. Oliver Cromwell was a descendant of Thomas Cromwell's sister.