Cromwell’s Fortunate Day

People once believed that each person had days specially bound up with their destiny, and 3 September seemed Oliver Cromwell’s lucky day, since he won at Dunbar on 3 September 1650 and at Worcester on the same day in 1651. The belief took a strange turn when he died on 3 September 1658. It was usually said that he died in a storm of singular violence that swept the whole country, fitting for such a man, but Chambers points out that the great storm had blown on 30 August and was spent before he died.