Jeremiah White (Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell)

Jeremiah White (Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell) (1629-1707). "According to Noble, Jeremiah White married Lady Frances Cromwell's waiting-woman, in Oliver's lifetime, and they lived together fifty years. Lady Frances had two husbands, Mr. Robert Rich and Sir John Russell of Chippenham, the last of whom she survived fifty-two years dying 1721-22 The story is, that Oliver found White on his knees to Frances Cromwell, and that, to save himself, he pretended to have been soliciting her interest with her waiting-woman, whom Oliver compelled him to marry." (Noble's 'Life of Cromwell', vol. ii. pp. 151, 152.)