 And the girl who was engaged to him was heartbroken over the sentence and the realization she was going to lose the one that she loved. So she went to see Oliver Cromwell and she pleaded for her loved one that he would be released and set free, but Cromwell wouldn't do it. And she was told that this young man that she was to be married to, this one she loved, would be executed the next day when the curfew bell sounded.