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A35353	Cathedrall newes from Canterbury shewing, the Canterburian Cathedrall to bee in an abbey-like, corrupt, and rotten condition, which cals for a speedy reformation, or dissolution : vvhich dissolution is already foreshowne, and begun there, by many remarkeable passages upon that place, and the prelats there : amongst which passages of wonder is, the Archbishop of Canterburies passing-bell, rung miraculously in that cathedrall / recorded and published by Richard Culmer ...	Culmer, Richard, d. 1662.	1644 (1644)	Wing C7478; ESTC R209928	28,341	30

especially Religious Churchwardens How often was the Bishops railing prayer or rather execration against the Scots when they stood up for their Religion Liberties against the Tyrannous Prelates read in that Cathedrall with a hundred Cathedrall Bellowing and Bawling A-A-Amens after that Prelaticall Prayer Some Souldiers being Listed to serve in the Bishops Warres against the Scots they being Mustered at Barham-downe in East-Kent neere Canterbury on the fifth of Aprill 1639. I heard the Grandee or Deane of that Cathedrall incourage them in the open Field at the Muster and amongst the rest he said to them Ha Blades I hope to see you returne every Man bravely with Blew Scots Caps on your Heads c. And their Colonell said you shall not need to ●●●ht a stroake but onely to shew your selves a little hee said also that the King would make the Scots glad to take Bishops and Arch-Bishops and Popes too at which the Cathedralist laught exceedingly Their Cathedrall Sermons what have they been for the most part these many yeers but kickings against the power of Godlines and Religion and the advancing of Popery Prelacy Superstition Prophanenesse c So that good Men have long since altogether abhorred and deserted their Cathedrall Preachments and thereby we are deprived of much evidence against their strange Cathedrall Sermonizings And had it not been for one of that Society who though mis-led yet now returned hath been a constant Preacher and in that respect their Cathedrall Salt that Cathedrall Nest of Prelates had wholly stunke and sunke long before this time A Religious and well-affected Alderman of Canterbury gave mee lately a Transcript of a passage written with his owne hand in a spare leafe in his great Bible which passage I have often read it s this Christ-tide 1633. was the first day of the High Altar and Candlestickes on it and Candles in them and other dressings very brave in Christ-Church Canterbury Doctor c. did preach us such a conjuring Sermon as I never heard before his Text was Mat. 2. 2. For wee have seene his Starre in the East and are come to worship him Hee told us the Names of the Wise Men and their profession Conjuring And in the end told the people that if they would find Christ they must come to the ALTAR and there they should find him really present if anywhere This is written in the Aldermans Bible but in the Transcript he writ further to me thus But the Cathedrall Doctor did so conjure that I went away with my haire an end and came no more to the Cathedrall in eight yeares after and I never could be in tune till the comming of the Noble Scots And the Parliament comming on set mee right againe Another of those Cathedrall Doctors Preaching there in the Quire on the fifth of November 1639. compared the Scots to the Gun-Powder Traytors because as I conceive they had blowne the Bishops and Popery out of Scotland Hee said The Gun-powder-Traytors had their powder in the barrels but these in the Bandeleers those would blow up these would blow out c. These were the fire-hot fumes of a Cathedrall Oven yet their cake is dough The persecuting Speech of the Arch-bishop of Canterbury made at Westminster in Starre-chamber against Englands three Worthies Mr. Burton Dr. Bastwicke and Mr. Prynne did presently eccho very many passages of it in the Cathedrall at Canterbury where they were called in a Cathedrall Sermon black-mouth'd-railing-Rabshakes c. An ordinary Cathedrall-turne-Preacher who in his morning service as is directed in the Masse Booke used to sing Psal. 43. And when they sung Then will I to thine Altar goe hee presently went out of his seat and did goe up ducking to the Altar to read Service there This Altar-Priest Preacht in that Cathedrall which I heard word for word thus His name Jesus was given him by an Angell his name Christ was given him by a Bishop an Arch-bishop Pontisex Maximus as wee say in English a Pope the first of all Popes Saint Peter thou art Christ It s no marvel if such men now malignantly side with Cavaleeres Bapists and Prelates against the proceedings of Parliament Another Cathedrall-turne-Preacher who being questioned why hee made not new Chancell railes for the Communion-Table he replied that those Railes were made of old Church wood and Seats which was consecrated stuffe This Cathedrall Preacher in his Visitation Sermon Preached on the three and twentyeth day of April 1639. Added to the Arch-bishops usuall titles calling him Our Good Lord and Master as they of old said of the Pope Dominus Deus noster Papa hee then Preached in Folio Diocesan Bishops to bee jure divine affirming the Presbyterian government to be a Gemmy a toy or Gu-gaw by Gemmy meaning the Scots as was conceived against whom he expresly inveyed and amongst the rest said Regi inimica meo gens inimica Deo A Nation at enmity with my King a Nation at enmity with my God The Busitaking-Sermon being ended the Arch-deacon being Prebend of that Cathedrall made an Oration to the Church-wardens and then I heard him say Is your Communion Table set up to the East end of the Chancell and rayled in Let it beset up in the highest place in the Church its fit Almighty God should have the highest room there as if one invite a great man to his house he will give him the chiefest room or seat One of those Cathedrall Doctors Preaching there before the Kings Majesty when he went with the Queen to Dovor in his Sermon cursed all those that went about to take away the Episcopall Government and to bring in the Presbyterian he affirmed then the Episcopall Government to be from Heaven as was that of old by the High Priests c. but said he I know not from whence the Presbyterian is unlesse from Corah Dathan Abiram Another Cathedrall Doctor Preaching there said that there was now in this Land a conspiracy against the King to take away his life and hee compared those whom he called conspirators to Corah Dathan and Abiram affirming that those that dyed at Keinton Battle being of this Conspiracy were the children of the Devill and their blood was on their own heads and that he hoped the people of the Land though the City would not would rise up and stay those Conspirators But the People of the Land presently rose up out of zeale to God the King Parliament and Kingdome against that Cathedrall Incendiary And although the Cathedrall-gates were shut a day or two for his rescue and defence against the Magistrate and people yet forces so increased round about the Cathedrall and did Peake and watch so closely and the Posterne Bridge between the Cathedrall and he Abbey of Austin the Monke being broken downe the Cathedralists themselves for feare of their own ruine did in the night by Torch-light deliver up their most Malignant Cathedrall Brother Into the hands

to see some Manuscripts which I was sending to Oxford in that Study hung my picture taken by the life and comming in I found it fallen downe upon the face and lying on the floore the string being broken by which it was hanged against the wall I am almost everyday threatned with my ruine in Parliament God grant this be no Omen This the Archbishop hath written and if any doubt of it he may see the Book which is now in Mr. Prin's custody I read in Duplessis Mistery of iniquity that when the Prelacie of Rome began to be ●●aken by Luther's thundring and some Princes joyning with him against the Pope the Image of St. Peter whose Successor the Pope falsly pretends to be standing aloft with keyes in his hand the keyes were struck out of the Images hand in a Tempest And Sir Francis Bacon in his History of Henry the 7th tels us that Philip the young King of Spaine who bare the Spread-Eagle in his Armes being in London the Gilded Eagle a lane in forme of an Eagle standing on the then Spired Steeple of the Cathedrall called Pauls in London fell downe in a Tempest and in the fall brake downe the signe of the Eagle hanging at a doore in Pauls Church-yard which was then much noted as Ominous to that Prince who not many dayes after fell from his Life and Kingdome And not long after this Parallell fall of the Arch-Bishops Armes the Arch-Bishop himselfe fell from as high as Lambeth nay from the Lords House in Parliament as low as the Tower of London for no lesse crime then High Treason And twelve other Bishops being high flowne above the high Court of Parliament in their proud Protestation did fall as low as that Tower also for their just deserts And a litle after that Episcopacie it selfe began to fall by that noble Act of Parliament against the High Commission Court by which Act the iron teeth of the Beast were knockt out and the Sting of abused Excommunication was pluckt out of his Tayle And since that which makes the fore recited fall at Canterbury more observable as predigious and betokening the ruine of Prelacie as proud Welsey Cardinall and Arch-Bishop said of the fall of his Crosier staffe at Yorke a litle before his owne fall and deserved death malum omen that is ani'l token The Kings Majesty casually passing through Canterbury in his Journey with the Queene to Dover staying a litle at Canterbury did at Canterbury and no where else in all England signe the Bill against the Votes of Bishops in Parliament which Act threw downe our Lofty Lordly Prelates from the Pinacle of their ambition And this Bill was not onely signed at Canterbury where the Armes of the Primat or prime Prelat of al England were so demolished in the Metropolitan Cathredral or prime Seat or Throne of the Beast called a Cathedrall but which is most observable it was signed at arained Abbey adjoyning to that Cathredrall And that Abbey in which the very first Bill and Act of Parliament against Bishops was signed by his Majesty was the Abbey of Austin the Monke who was the very first Arch-Bishop of Canterbury that ever was and a most superstitious persecutor and bloudy Incendiary of Church and State which is Recorded to his Litle LAUD and was buried at Canterbury in that Abbey where Episcopacy it self hath now received a deadly wound by the Royall assent to that Bill And since that Bill was signed another Bill hath passed Both Houses of Parliament whereby all that cursed prelaticall Hierarchy of Arch-Bishops Bishops Deanes Arch-Deacons c. is cut downe root and branch and hath its finall Doome and Down-fall Prelate remember the Pincale And as for the Canterburian Arch-Prelate whose Coate-Armes Badges of Honour were so cast downe his charge Impeachment of high Treason now brings him to a dishonourable low posture at the Bar of the highest Court of Justice where it will shortly appeare what these prodigious falls portended a sparrow not falling to the ground without the divine providence I find in the recited Diary or day-booke written with the Arch-Bishops own hand word for word thus 1628. Ian. 31. Saturday night I lay in Court I dreamed that I put off my Rochet all save one steeve and when I would have put it on againe I could not find it 1638. Feb. 12. Tuesday night I dreamed that K. C. was to be married to a Ministers Widow and that I was called up to doe it no service-Service-booke could be found and in mine owne booke which I had I could not find the order for Marriage 1639. Ianu 24. Friday at night I dreamed that my father who dyed 46. years since came to me and to my thinking he was as wel as ever I saw him he asked me what I did here and after some speech I asked him how long he would stay with me hee answered he would stay till he had me away with him I am not moved with dreames yet I thought fit to remember this All this may now be seene written with the Arch-Bishops owne hand in that book of his now in Mr. Prinns custodie And the Arch-Bishop himselfe being at White-Hall in his jollity and Ruffe about 5. years since told the Right Honourable the Earl of Pembrocks and Earle of Monmouth that when he was in Oxford he dreamed that he should come to the highest and greatest preferment in Church and State that ever any Clergy man did that he should be in great favour power and authority and make great changes and alterations in the Church for sundry years but yet after al this he should be hang'd at last At which the said Lords falling into a great laughter His Majesty that now is hearing it came into the room demanded of them the cause of their mirth that he might have a share of it whereunto the truly noble Earle of Pembrooke answered that the reason of their laughter was at a dream wch the Arch-Bishop of Canterburie had newly told them Whereupon the King demanded what the dream was to which the Earle replyed that it was the Arch-Bishops own dream he was best able to relate it to his Majesty upon which the King calling the Arch-Bishop to him caused him in their presence to tel the dream over again to the King himselfe But to returne to my Cathedrall newes to tell you what hath followed those observable alarums in that Cathedrall On their Candlemas day at night 1641. Those Consecrated Images about their new Cathedral Font were all demolished taken away they knew not how nor by whom that purification was observed without Candles But a few days after some of those Idols were found in that Cathedral in a Pulpit where a Sermon had not bin preached neer 20. years before But were not those Images put into that Pulpit to preach in that Cathedral touching wooden Priests and Idol-Shepheards but of that

and Actions of those Cathedrall Prelates to support Popery Prelacy and Tyranny Why then should any stomack the fall of Prelacy and Cathedrals especially of the Canterburian Cathedrall Babell of whose sinnes you have heard a little and may see ten times more upon Record in this present Parliament you shall now heare the Beginning of her plagues And here I shall begin with strange Cathedrall newes yet such as is most true and well known to all that live in or neer Canterburie And wch the Cathedrallists themselves cannot deny though living like boares in a paddock or stie they may grunt at the noyse of it The Cathedrall Prelats at Canterbury hearing a rumour though false that the Scots had yielded to entertaine Bishops at the Pacification in the North in the yeare 1639. they were overjoyed at that newes being before in a quaking feare that having on each shoulder a steeple or two and a Cathedrall on their head they should be eased of their beloved burden by a Reformation which they feared might reach from Edenborough in Scotland to Canterburie in England well knowing that Prelacy and Cathedralls were built upon the sandy foundation of Ignorance Superstition Ambition and Covetousnesse and had only custome and humane power to uphold them And to expresse their great triumph at that newes they did then in the Summer time in the height of their Prelaticall glory set up upon the foure Pinacles of their highest Cathedrall steeple called Bell-harry steeple 4 great iron fanes or flags on which the Coate-Arms of the King Prince Church and Archbishop of Canterburie were severally guilded and painted But in the end of December following in the midst of their Cathedral Iovialities and Christmas Gamballs there was a Gamball plaid by the flag which had the Archbishops armes on it which had a tumbling cast from the top of the steeple being strucken downe by a stroake from heaven in a fearefull tempest on Innocents day early in the morning And the Archbishops arms pulld down the top of the pinacle which upheld them and were carryed partly against the wind a good distance from the steeple on which they stood and fell upon the roofe of the Cloyster in which Cloyster the Armes of the Arch-Bishoprick of Cant. were carved painted on the lower side or concave of the Arch or seeling of the Cloyster which Armes in the Cloyster were dashed in peices by the Armes which fell from the pinacle of the steeple The Arms of the present Arch-Bishop of Canterburie brake downe the Armes of the Arch-Bishoprick or Sea of Canterburie The fall was so violent that it brake through the leads plancks timbers and stone-Arch of the Cloyster and made an impression in the pavement of the Cloyster as if it had been done with Canon shot which impression is partly to be seene at this day though repayred And this prodigious fall of the Arch-Bishops Armes was very neer the place where that proud Prelate Thomas Becket Arch-Bishop of Canterburie and Arch Traytor was cast down headlong in that Cathedrall for his Treason and Rebellion And very neere the unparallel'd Idolatrous window in that Cathedrall But the Prelats bestir'd themselves in the morning and tooke away in all smoaking hast the broken Armes and rabbish and swept all cleane that lesse notice might be taken of that lamentable ruine And to hide the deformity of the crop-ear'd steeple and to take away the observation and remembrance of that downfall which concerned their gracious Diocesan and great Cathedral so much they would not suffer the Armes of the King Prince and Church to stand any longer on the other three pinacles but tooke them all three downe instantly Those Armes of King Prince and Church being untouched with the tempest and standing all three firme and glorious on the other pinacles of the steeple without the help or company of that tottering Prelate who had left them at a pinch of need And the Cathedrall men repaited the broken Cloyster gilding painting the Arch over head as it was before but they have made other Coate-Armes in the roome of the Armes of the Arch-Bishoprick because they would conceale that strange ruine of those Armes And they have repaired the roofe of their Idolatrous Quire which a little before the Arch-Bishops Armes fell downe was terribly rent and broken also in a wondrous tempest That very night the Bishop of Oxford came to that Cathedrall to consecrate their new brave Cathadrall Font And they mended the top of the broken pinacle but never hunge out their flaggs any more since Alas poore Cathedrall And because the new repaired pinacle was white diffring in colour from the other three they were at great cost to raise a huge Scaffold only to white over the top of one other pinacle that their Arch-Prelate might not be pointed at as singular but they were deceived for the two new whited Pinacles were seene and pointed at a far off and were said to have a paire of white lawne sleeves drawne over them as a perpetuall monument of their Arch-Prelates two broken Armes and downfall And it was then observed as wonderfully ominous foreshewing the utter downfal and ruine of Prelicie as these verses then made thereupon declare Cathedrall Church at Canterbury Hath taken mortall harmes The Quire and Cloyster do want a plaister And so doe the Arch-Bishops Armes The heavens just stroake the Prelates Armes broke And did Cathedrall maule 2. 6. 3. 9. Brought forth this signe Heaven foretells Prelates fall I have lately seene the Arch Bishop of Canterburies diary written with his own hand as he and his Secretary have confest in the Lords house in Parliament which booke Mr. Prynno found in his pocket in the Tower of London some months since and hath been often read in that House since the Bishops tryall in which booke the Arch-Bishop writes verbatins thus 1639. Decemb. 27. Friday being St. Johns day at night between 12. and 2. of the clock the next morning the greatest winde that ever I heard blow many of the watermen at Lambeth had their boates tumbled up and downe and broken to pieces as they lay on the land out of my servants went to London and durst not come home that evening the weather was so foule that night the shafts of two chimneyes as Lambath were beat down upon the roofe of his chamber and beat downe both the lead and the rafters upon his bed where had he been that night he must have perished At Croydon one of the pinacles fell from the steeple and burst downe the lead and roofe of the Church 〈◊〉 20. foote square 1633. Septemb. 19. Thursday I was translated to the Arch-Bishopprick of Canterburie 18. The day before when I went to Lambeth my Coach-horses and men suncke to the bottome of the Thames in the Ferry-boat which was overladen 1639. Tuesday Simon and Judes Eve I went into my upper Study

busines the Prelats made no dumb complaint to the King himselfe when he was last there in his Journey with the Q 〈…〉 to Dovor they carryed him to the Font and shewed him the lamentable condition and ruine of their new consecrated Font and where those Images had stood about it And indeed they could better endure the late felling of about 300. Episcopall and Cathedrall Oakes in one yeare for their owne gaine then they could endure the pulling down of those 18. Idols of wood stone But the truth is the Citizens of Canterburie had first complained of them in the rehearsed Petition which lyes heavier on their stomacks then 3. Parish Churches and a Cathedrall And besides that Petition and pulling downe their puppets those Cathedrallists have been much crossed in their Popish and idolatrous designes the Prelats pious worke in hand when some wel-affected Citizens of Canterburie beheld how those Cathedrall Priests bowed and crowched towards their Altar although they did not serve the Priest as he deserved as the Arch Prelate of St. Andrews in Scotland was served when they hurled creckets and stooles and sticks at him when he first read the new Scots Service-booke in his Pontificabilus But they cryed out aloud in the time of the Cathedrall Service many Sabbath dayes Leave your idolatry leave your idolatry there And one Sabbath day when after the Sermon was ended in that Cathedrall Quire and the Psalme after Sermon was begun the High Priest or Canon went before and the low Priest or Petti-canon behind him the Vergerer or Vsher before both all three ducking ducking ducking like wilde-geese head to raile as they went from their seates in the Quire up to the High Altar where the Priests stood untill the Organs and Quire had ceased and then the Altar-Priest began to reade out of the Service-booke the Cathedrall third Service or Alter-Sermon-service But the people sung on still the Organist having casually called the first part of the 119. Psalm Whereupon the Altar-Priest called the Petti-canon a Priested Weaver that waited on him at the Altar him the grand Priest sent downe drom the Altar to bid the people leave singing The Petti-canon called out aloud leave your singing leave your singing but they sung on then the Petti-canon called out to the Priest at the Altar Sir they do 't for the nonce they do 't for the nonce then one pull'd the Petti-canon by the Surplice behinde and cryed out you are a Weaver another cryed out leave your Idolatry but still the people sung on All this time the Priest stood dumb at the Altar with his service-Service-booke in his Surplice Hood and Tippet and had lost his dinner if he had not come down from the Altar and gone home without reading any more Altar Service at that time and left the people singing who when the Priest was gone from the Altar and the Quire risen did all depart home quietly and after that time the Cathedrallists would preach no more in the Quire but in the Sermon-house as before One of the great Canons or Prebends in the very act of his low congying towards the Altar as he went up to it in Prayer time was not long since resaluted by a huge mastiffe dog which leapt upright on him once againe pawed him in his ducking saluting progresse posture to the Altar so that he was fain to call out aloud take away the dog take away the dog At the election of Burgesses for Canterburie upon the summons of the Parliament in the yeare 1639. The Proctors Fidlers Papsters and other friends of the Cathedrall and Prelaticall party at Canterburie were for the Arch-Bishops Secretary to be Burgesse there who came downe before the day of election for that purpose and prepared his foresaid friends to vote for him and at the day of election he came into the Guild-Hall of Canterburie and there produced to the Citizens letters written to them in his behalf from his Lord and Master the Arch Bishop and from the then Lord Keeper and then the Secretary made a Speech to the Citizens to chuse him Burgesse in which Oration he said there is a picture hanging before you of a great Benefactor to this Citie the same man was the founder of the Colledg in Oxford where I lived The Citizens heating this cryed out aloud no pictures no Images no Papists no Arch-bishops Secretary we have too many Images and pictures in the Cathedrall already and after that they would not heare him speake a word more but hist him downe and presently cryed up others whom they then chose Burgesses for that Citie And a Petti canon of that Cathedrall being voting there for the Arch-Bishops Secretarie one told him he was no Free man and therefore could have no Vote there He replyed I am a Free-man I have my coppie in my pocket then one said 't is true indeed he is a Weaver he is free of that trade Then there arose a loud cry amongst them a Weaver a Weaver a Weaver a Priested Weaver in a Canonicall coate The Grandes of that Cathedrall about two yeares since having feasted some Malignants that came from the Downes at Deale where they would have seazed on the Parliaments ships after dinner he having accompanied them out of Towne in his Coach at his returne his Coach overthrew into the Cōmon sewer or broad stinking ditch between the three Kings Tavern and Kings bridge in Canterburie the great Cathedrallist crying out helpe me helpe me The people laughing at their Land Shipwrack and filthy pickle and bedaub'd white Sattin gowne of the Famale Cathedrallist The people said also that the Prelates would have a greater fall they hoped And since that there was Cathedrall newes from Canterburie in print in a letter written by a Master of a Colledge an Arch-Deacon two Pretends three Parsons and yet but one man a Canterburian Cathedrallist which printed newes some called the Cathedrall lamentation for Dagon's downfall The newes was that the Troopers sought with God himselfe in the Cathedrall Quite at Canterburie But the trueth is that on the 26. of August 1642. Some zealous Troopers after they had by command taken the powder and ammunition out of that Malignant Cathedrall they fought it seemes with the Cathedrall Gods named in that printed letter namely Altars Images Service-booke Prickesong-booke Surplisse and Organs for they hewed the Altar-ratles all to pieces and threw their Altar ever and ever and ever downe the three Altar-stops and left it lying with the heeks upward they slasht some Images Crucifixes and Prickesong bookes and one greasie Service-book and a ragged smock of the whore of Rome called a Surplisse and began to play the tune of the zealous souldier on the Organs or case of whistles which never were in tune since But the Cathedrallists cryed out for their great Diana ran to the Commander in chiefe with all speed who presently cal'd off the

S●uldiers who afterwards sung Cathodrall Prick-song as they rode over Barham-downe towards Dover with Prick-song leaves in their hands and lighted their tobacco-pipes with them such pipes and Cathedrall Prick-song did consort well together But after this Cathedrall Camisado their Quire which before had all the Pipes both Service and Sermon hath never since that time had once Service or Sermon in it to this day There are no Cathedrall Seraphims heard tossing their Quire Service from one side of the Quire to the other onely plaine service-Service-booke Service is read in the Sermon-House And they have never set up their Altar any more since that dismall overthrow They had removed it of themselves not long after the Parliament began according to the pious Order of Parliament but they set it up againe Altarwise that day the Sermon was preach't there before the King when hee staid at Canterbury in his late journey with the Queen to Dover and so their Altar stood untill those Reforming Troopers removed it with a vengeance And as for their Altar-trinkets their silver Basin and Candlesticks the Prelates had hid them from the Troopers but afterwards sold them to a Merchant in Canterbury for feare they should be seized on for the publique defence of the Kingdome But when they heard that a sack posset was eaten out of their Cathredrall Altar-Basin they were much offended that a consecrated Basin should be so prophaned and thereupon bought againe their Basin and Candlesticks which some affirme had tallow-candles in them while the sack-posset was in eating But this was but a forerunner of a more orderly and through Reformation in that Cathedral which according to another pious Ordinance of Parliament for demolishing of Monuments of Idolatry began upon the thirteenth day of December last that very day in which the neck of the Hoptonians advance into Kent was broken by that utter defeat given the Lord Crafords whole Regiment at Alton by the Religious and Valiant Sir William Waller which defeat given on that day made way for his taking of Arundel Castle for the absolute repulse of the enemy Gods providence fitted that day to begin that Deliverance when that most idolatrous Cathedrall first began to be purged of those abhominable Images of jealousie The Cathedrall men would not execute that Ordinance themselves they loved their Cathedrall Jezabel the better because she was painted which painted Cathedrall Jezabel the recited Proctours Booke calls Mother Church But the worthy Major and Recorder of Canterburie put on that blessed worke of Reformation with their speedy warrant according to that ORDINANCE When the Commissioners entred upon the execution of that Ordinance in that Cathedrall they knew not where to begin the Images and Pictures were so numerous as if that Superstitious Cathedrall had beene built for no other end but to be a stable for Idolls At last they resolved to begin with the window on the East of the high Altar beyond that Sainted-Traytor Arch-Bishop Beckets shrine at which shrine to this day may be seen how the stones of the pavement on the sides and ends of that shrine were worn with the kneeling of the Idolatrous people which came on Pilgrimage to offer there to that Pope-holy Saint But the Commissioners knew not what pictures were in that Eastmost window of that Cathedrall and comming to it the first picture they found there was of Austin the Monke who as is said before was the first Arch-Bishop of Canterburie that ever was so it casually fell out that the Image of this Arch-Prelate of Canterburie was the first that was demolished in that Cathedral many window-Images or pictures in glasse were demolished that day and many Idolls of stone thirteen representing Christ and his twelve Apostles standing over the West doore of the Quire were all hewed down and 12. more at the North doore of the Quire and 12. Mytred-Saints sate aloft over the West doore of the Quire which were all cast downe headlong and some fell on their heads and their Myters brake their necks While this worke was in hand in comes a Prebends wife and pleaded for the Images there and jeered the Commissioners viraginously but when shee saw a picture of Christ demolished she skreekt out and ran to her husband who after shee was gone came in and asked for their Authoritie to doe those things and being answered that there was the Ordinance of the KING and PARLIAMENT he replyed not of the King but of the Parliament if you wil he also pleaded for the Images there and spake in justification of his bowing towards the Altar yea he would maintain his bowing three times that way because there were three Persons in the Trinity a poor argument for a Cathedrall Doctor he might as wel have argued because he did give thanks for the three parishes or steeples he enjoyed But after he had disputed a while with the Ministers that assisted the Commissioners in that worke the grand Priest complained for want of breath saying he was ready to faint and desired to be let out And indeed he looked very ill 't is true he stood very neere the place where Arch-Bishop Becket was cast over headlong but this man had no cause of fear not a distastfull or disrepective word and was quietly let out as he desired And then that work of Reformation went on the Commissioners fell presently to work on the great Idolatrous window standing on the left hand as you goe up into the Quire for which window some affirm many thousand pounds have been offered by Out-landish Papists In that window was now the picture of God the Father and of Christ besides a large Crucifixe and the picture of the Holy Ghost in the form of a Dove and of the 12. Apostles and in that window were seven large pictures of the Virgin Marie in seven severall glorious appearances as of the Angells listing her into heaven and the Sun Moon and Stars under her feet and every picture had an inscription under it beginning with gaude Maria as gaude Maria sponsa dei that is Rejoyce Mary thou Spouse of God There were in this window many other pictures of Popish Saints as of St. George c. But their prime Cathedrall Saint-Arch-Bishop Thomas Becket was most rarely pictured in that window in full proportion with Cope Rochet Miter Crosier and all his Pontificalibus And in the foot of that huge window was a title intimating that window to be dedicated to the Virgin Mary In laudem honorem beatissimae Virginis Mariae matris dei c. But you have a register of the Cathedrall Idolls in a late book mentioned in the recited Canterburie Petition In that Prelaticall book thanks are given to the piety of these times that the Altar in that Cathedrall was so richly adorned there is a project for a discovery to what Saint every parish Church is dedicated that Church-Ales