Birmingham.
_Calves'-head Club_ (Vol. viii., p. 480.; Vol. ix., p. 15.).--A
correspondent of the _Cambridge Chronicle_ of Dec. 31 says, that in the
churchyard of Soham, Cambridgeshire, there is "a monster-tomb surrounded by
a lofty iron railing," with the following inscription in letters of a large
size:
"ROBERT D'AYE, Esquire, died April, 1770. Also MARY, Wife of Robert
D'Aye, Esquire, Daughter of William Russell, Esquire, of Fordham Abbey,
and Elizabeth his Wife, who was the only surviving Daughter of
HENRY CROMWELL,
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Son of
OLIVER CROMWELL,
Protector; died November 5, 1765, aged 73 years."
After stating that in the same tomb lie the bodies of the daughter of
D'Aye, and his wife (ob. 1779), their grandson (1803), and great-grandson
(1792), the writer adds that there is a _tradition_ in Soham that, during
the lifetime of Mrs. D'Aye, out of respect to the doings of Oliver
Cromwell, on the anniversary of King Charles's martyrdom, _a calf's head
besmeared with blood_ was hoisted on a pole in front of the cot of the
husband.