The Roundhead Joke, I'm Imagining a Desk Draw

When Cromwell's head got put on the spike, there was a big rumor around that actually it wasn't his head. In 1813, they decided to dig him up again. And he was there. Just the first time again. They did use to toss them in all together a bit. There was obviously a conundrum after Charles was decapitated because they don't want to create a martyr of him by having it either be a big thing bearing him or not bearing him at all. The story, the QI facts that we always say about this is that they used the Bertubre as a salt holder. So if you ever went for dinner at Sir Henry Hulford's