[382] State Papers, April 13, 1651. Bundle 646. Ogle is here styled "Colonel."
[383] Vicars' Chronicle, iii.
[384] Vicars' Chronicle, iii. 128, Baillie, ii. 134, and Perfect Diurnal. In the Perfect Diurnal of Thursday, June 19th, 1645, there is an account of another City feast. After dinner, and grace said by Mr. Marshall, both Houses of Parliament, the Assembly of Divines, the Aldermen of the City, and all the rest being assembled in the hall, they sung the 46th Psalm, and after that they departed.
[385] Mr. Bruen, of Tarvin, in the Deanery of Chester, an eminent Puritan (born 1560, died 1625) "the phœnix of his age," distinguished himself as an iconoclast. Finding in his own chapel superstitious images, and idolatrous pictures in the painted windows, and they so thick and dark that there was, as he himself says, "scarce the breadth of a groat of white glass amongst them," took orders to pull them down, indeed by the Queen's injunctions utterly to extinguish and destroy all pictures, paintings, and other monuments of idolatry and superstition, so that there might remain no memory of the same in the walls, glass windows, or elsewhere within their churches and houses. The Bible and ecclesiastical history are appealed to as further authorities. Theodosius abscondit simulacra gentium, omnes enim cultus idolorum cultus ejus abscondit; omnes eorum ceremonias obliteravit. Ambrosii Orat. in Mort. Theo.—See Hinde's Life of Bruen.
[386] Rushworth, v. 358.
[387] Oct 3. P. Diurnal. "The Commons, for the better taking away of superstitious ceremonies in churches, as in wearing the surplice and the like; which they had noticed (notwithstanding all former orders) was still used in sundry places—especially at the Abbey of Westminster—agreed in a further order, for the taking away of all copes and surplices, belonging to the said Abbey of Westminster, and to forbid the wearing of them in that or any other church or cathedral in England."
[388] Laud was at work upon the restoration of St. Paul's in 1640, "the whole body was finished with Portland stone excellent against all smoke and weather, and the tower scaffolded up to the top with purpose to take it all down and to rebuild it more fair." After his apprehension "the scaffolds were taken away and sold, with some of the lead which covered this famous structure."—Chamberlayne's Anglica Notitia, part ii. 155.
In the State Paper Office there is a document by Montague, Bishop of Chichester, containing an exhortation to the clergy of his diocese, giving thirteen reasons for their contributing to the fund for repairing the Cathedral of St. Paul. He dwells upon the dignity of St. Paul's as, in a sort, the mother church of the kingdom, and stimulates the persons addressed to liberality by a consideration of what was done by their predecessors.—Calendar, 1633-4, 384.
[389] 1643, May 27.—Resolved, an ordinance for borrowing the plate in all cathedrals superstitiously used upon their altars.
1644, April 24.—Ordered, the mitre and crosier staff found in St. Paul's Church to be forthwith sold, and the brass and iron in Henry the Seventh's Chapel.—Parry's Councils and Parliaments.