Oliver Cromwell's Birth

As a pendant to the certificate of Cromwell's baptism, printed in No. 9., p. 136., it may be as well to lay before our readers the following entry of the time of his birth, which occurs in John Booker's Astrological Practice Book, Ashmole MS. 183., p. 373.: —"Oliver Cromwell born 25 Apl. 1599, about 3 o'clock A. M., at Huntington." In another Ashmole MS. 332. 11 b., which is a collection of figures set by Ashmole himself, Oliver Cromwell's birth is assigned to 22nd April, 1599. The figure is designated by Ashmole, in a spirit very different from that of the annotator of the Baptismal Register,…