3-078-019 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Miles Syndercombe's Cottage at Shepherd's Bush Green, about to be demolished: rear view, 1890. 'The ancient thatched cottage...is that hired and inhabited by Miles Syndercombe, in January 1657, for the purpose of assassinating Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth, on his road from Hampton Court to London. Cromwell discovered the conspiracy, and Syndercombe was arrested, tried, and condemned to death...Similar plots, real or pretended, sometimes ascribed to the Cavalier partisans of Charles II., sometimes to the "Fifth Monarchy" men, who were fanatical Republicans and religious zealots, are frequent in the history of Cromwell's Dictatorship, when the maxim was "Killing no Murder." The purchaser of this historic cottage at Shepherd's Bush Green has consented to allow visitors to view the premises on presenting their cards. They should call between three and five in the afternoon, and they are expected to contribute a small sum to the Shepherd's Bush Philanthropic Society or the West London Hospital'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.