Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

Not known

Inscription:

Under the gravestone adjoining were buried
John Pym M.P. 1643
William Strode M.P. 1645
Colonel Edward Popham 1651
[All the]se were removed by Royal Warrant 1661

Allegiance:

Parliamentarian

Condition:

Average

Condition Description:

Lettering beginning to fade in places

Memorial Notes:

These parliamentarians were exhumed in 1661 on the orders of King Charles II and thrown in a pit in St Margaret's churchyard with the bodies of other dead parliamentarians. All the parliamentarians so treated are commemorated on a plaque erected by the Cromwell Association attached to an exterior wall of St Margaret's church . See https://www.battlefieldstrust.com/memorial/memorial.asp?MemorialID=12