4, his Highness himself present, payment of the arrears of an allowance he had of 40_s._ a week, with continuation of the same allowance thenceforward, was granted to his wife, Elizabeth.[1] [Footnote 1: Sewel's _History of the Quakers_.

I.160-163 (where, however, there is an error as to the date of Lilburne's death); Wood's Ath.III.

357; _Cromwelliana_, 168; Council Order Books of Nov.

4, 1657.] When the subdued Lilburne thus went to his grave among the Quakers, his unsubdued successor in the trade of Anti-Cromwellian conspiracy, the Anabaptist ex-Colonel Sexby, was in the Tower, waiting his doom.
He had been arrested, July 24, in a mean disguise and with a great over-grown beard, on board a ship that was to carry him back to Flanders after one of his visits to London on his desperate design of an assassination of Cromwell, to be followed by a Spanish-Stuartist invasion.

What _would_ have been his doom can be but guessed.