Cromwell comes to notice in 1646 when she marries Henry Ireton who was a close colleague of her father.

Her portrait was painted by Cornelius Johnson and that picture is now in Chequers Court.

Bridget did not stay long and she was in England when the news of her husband's death reached her.

Her first husband was not only exhumed but his dead body was hanged in revenge for Henry's involvement in the regicide of Charles I.

[2] She features in an image in the National Portrait Gallery where she is shown in the foreground when her family were imagined to be pleading with Oliver Cromwell to spare the life of Charles I.