 However, on 17 June, the bill of attainder was heard in Parliament for the first time and Cromwell would have known his terrible fate.Ominously, on a deposition to the king, he wrote "All these articles be tr[ue by the] death I shall die, and m[ore] as more plainly app[eareth by a] letter written with my [own hand] sent by Mr. Secretary [unto] the King's Highness.