'Peter Sterry dreamed' - we quote a foot-note from Dr. Treadway Nash's scholarly edition of 'Hudibras' - ' that Oliver Cromwell was to be placed in heaven, which he foolishly imagined to be the true and real heaven above; but it happened to be the false, carnal heaven at the end of "Westminster Hall, where his head was fixed after the Restoration. There were, at that time, two victualling-houses at the end of Westminster Hall, under the Exchequer, the one called Heaven, and the other Hell. Near to the former Oliver's head was fixed, January 30, 1660-1.'

It is to this dream of the enthusiastic ' minister and chaplain to the Highness the Lord Protector,' that Butler refers in the second canto of the third part of 'Hudibras': -

'Tossed in a furious hurricane, Did Oliver give up his reign; And was believed, as well by saints As moral men and miscreants, To founder in the Stygian ferry, Until he was relieved by Sterry; Who, in a false erroneous dream, Mistook the New Jerusalem Profanely for the apocryphal False heaven at the end o' the hall; Whither it was decreed by fate His precious reliques to translate. So Romulus was seen before B' as orthodox a senator, From whose divine illumination, He stole the pagan revelation.'