From Ask A Mortician.

Oliver Cromwell lost his head but only after he died in his bed. 

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SELECTED SOURCES/FURTHER READING

Fitzgibbons, Jonathan. CROMWELL’S HEAD. Bloomsbury Academic, 2008. 

"Cromwell’s Death and Funeral Order" https://www.british-history.ac.uk/burton-diaries/vol2/pp516-530

"The Trial of Charles I" https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/trial-charles-i/

"The Execution of Charles I" https://www.hrp.org.uk/banqueting-house/history-and-stories/the-execution-of-charles-i/#gs.eckadk

"Cromwell’s Dust" https://erenow.org/biographies/cromwellourchiefofmen/27.php

"Cromwell’s Body" https://www.olivercromwell.org/wordpress/cromwells-body/

"What happened to Cromwell’s body after his death?" https://www.olivercromwell.org/wordpress/what-happened-to-cromwell-after-his-death/

"Cromwell in Ireland" https://www.olivercromwell.org/wordpress/ireland/

"The Strange Saga of Oliver Cromwell’s Head" https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/585591/oliver-cromwells-head-history

"Flagellum, or, The life and death, birth and burial of Oliver Cromwel faithfully described in an exact account of his policies and successes, not heretofore published or discovered / by S.T., Gent." https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A43211.0001.001/1:4?rgn=div1;view=fulltext

"George Bate–Cromwell’s Devious Physician" https://www.reformation.org/dr-george-bate.html

"Oliver Cromwell and Family" https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/oliver-cromwell-and-family/