He became insane in the Tower, and died there in that state Jan.

13, 1657-8.

He had previously confessed to Barkstead, the Lieutenant of the Tower, that he had been the real mover of the Sindercombe Plot, that he had been in the pay of Spain, and also, apparently, that he was the author of _Killing no Murder_.[1] [Footnote 1: _Merc.

Pol._ of dates, as quoted in _Cromwelliana_, 167-170.] So quiet and even was the course of home-affairs through the first seven months of the new Protectorate that such glimpses and anecdotes of particular persons have to suggest the general history.

Yet one more of the sort.
In the parish register of Bolton Percy in Yorkshire there is this entry: "George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, and Mary, the daughter of Thomas, Lord Fairfax, Baron of Cameron, of Nunappleton within this Parish of Bolton Percy, were married the 15th day of September _anno Dom_.