the occult review April 1936

I daresay something like this would be found in the archives of a library. I know it was on eBay as I found its cover but it's been sold.

While I don't have the original article, I have read it (I studied history and wrote about Irish slavery in Cromwell's era) and understand it to be a conspiracy theory purported by a relative of a man who was said to have been with Cromwell on the occasion he met with Satan, the allegation being that Cromwell sold his soul and body in exchange for temporal success.

There are many mentions of Cromwell's supposed connection with black magic. Hardly paranormal though. I did find a passage:

'Early on the morning of the Battle of Worcester, September 3, 1651, Oliver invited Lindsay, his intimate friend an a 'first captain of his regiment', to go with him to a wood not far from the army……………..Cromwell walked a short distance away from Lindsey and was met by " a grave, elderly man " who held a roll of parchment in his hand.
Lindsey saw it passed to Cromwell , who unrolled it , glanced rapidly over the contents, and then in angry disappointment passed it back again, exclaiming angrily in a loud voice, " This is but for seven years, I was to have it for twenty-one and it must and shall be so."
Oliver's anger made no impression , for quite unmoved the wizard merely repeated that he could not have it any longer than seven years, " and if he would not take it , there were others that would accept it."

'Oliver Cromwell and Black Magic' -- S. Everard.
From the 'Occult Review', April 1936.