From Cornwall. A colonel in Oliver Cromwell's Parliamentary army. Buried in Westminster Abbey. When Charles II was restored to the throne he ordered the disinterment of the bodies of Oliver Cromwell and his supporters, including Boscawen, and their reburial in an unmarked pit in St Margaret's churchyard, Westminster.
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Col. Nicholas Boscawen
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Reburied parliamentarians
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