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Cromwell's bad day in Alnwick; Letter to be sold.(News)

Byline: By VINCE GLEDHILL

HE was famously frosty, but Oliver Cromwell seemed to be having a particularly off day when he wrote this.

The rare letter is up for auction in London and shows the Lord Protector with his guard down.

Writing during the English Civil War to close friend Richard Mayor, he describes himself as a "poore worme" and in "neede of pittye".

He goes on to criticise his layabout son, who ...

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