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A59912	The birth and burning of the image called S. Michael containing the substance of a narrative lately given into the vestry of All Saints Barkin, London / by Mr. Edmond Sherman ... at laying down his office in Easter week, 1681 ... ; together with a letter to Mr. Jonathan Saunders ... which may serve for an answer to his two late pamphlets entituled, Apparitions, &c. ; introduced with two vestry orders demonstrating not so good reason for its birth as burning ; set up anno 1659/60, burnt anno 1680/81 ...	Sherman, Edmund, 17th cent.; Sanders, Jonathan.	1681 (1681)	Wing S3382; ESTC R10625	24,275	18

Porter to carry it back in his Bag and to lay it in some p●ivate Corner in the Church which was done accordingly and I reckoned so soon as we made the next fire to cut it in pieces and burn it in the Vestry as I had promised in Court This was Monday but we had no occasion of Fire there before Sunday following for the Minister or my self was at payment of the poor but on Wednesday morning one came to tell me that I should be indicted again for letting it remain in the Church undemolish'd I told him pray stay Sir and I will fetch it and you shall see it demolish'd which was accordingly done and hath been since burnt at sundry times at Vestry meetings and at payment of the poor the last Log of it being burnt in the Vestry on Good Friday Now Gentlemen Mr. Sanders having put out two Apparitions already what wold he have done if I had sould it might he not by Art-Magick have filled the world with more new Apparitions in a Fortnights time than he gives us new Sermons in a _____ for though he says in his last Scrible Here is the end yet he intimates there is more a coming O But now Gentlemen you will say I have done this thing without order of Vestry verily it is true and I can't find but that one Churchwarden viz. Mr. Edwards set it up for his fancy without order of Vestry for this particular Image above twenty years ago and another Churchwarden viz. Mr. Clements removed it to the Altar about five years ago without order of Vestry and I being first indicted for letting it stand so long have now burnt it even likewise without order of Vestry for as the Learned Textuary Mr. Sanders says the Wise Man tells us there is a time for all things and I believe I have done as well in pulling it down as they in setting it up and indeed as I ought to do when Images become so publickly offensive as you know of late this hath been and meerly because Mr. Sanders and not the Doctor make so many Reverend Bows before it and began so lately other Ceremonies just under it especially if you consider that Mr. Sanders never said these Services and Benedictions at the Altar or Bowed before the Image was set there And thus as to the Narrative of Fact as Mr. Sanders phraseth it Here is the end I will acknowledg that in some Drolling Discourses at Coffee-Houses and elsewhere upon this Matter I may have rendred some of these Transactions in other expressions but this Account here now penn'd is as to matter of Fact the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth to the best of my memory or if I have varied is any expressions or minute circumstances I shall be more ready to acknowledg and rectifie it then I do yet find Mr. Sanders to be Interim I do affirm that the substance of the matter is to the effect aforesaid Thus far Gentlemen I have gone seriously on and now according to the Mode of dispatching business in our Parish le ts go to the Tavern and merrily discourse what all of us can say farther about this matter There may possibly be some amongst you of that tender-natur'd simpathizing humour as to be a little heated at sight of this poor Image in Flames and ready to quench them with compassionate Tears or at least that have a months mind to put the Parish into a flame of disputes about it under a notion of defending it by calling it an Ornament of the Church and so that way defend Great Guilded Carved Images Let such Gentlemen take their Course for I give this Account only to relate the truth not in the least to preclude as Mr. Sanders hath it you or any body from any Legal Porsecution against me for what I have done either singly or joyntly with my Partner But Doctor and Gentlemen be pleased to compare this with Mr. Sanders his two Pamphlets of Apparitions and do you and the World judg what untruth he hath related and what reason we have to defend such a mighty Carved Guilded Image with an argument that it is not against that Act or that it is not St. Michael Gentlemen you all cannot but know what hath given the occasion to indict us for this Image viz. Because they say that in our Parish we are making steps to something that I won't name because I won't believe it but that our steps have been thus cannot be denied viz. First in 75 We set up a stately and chargeable pair of Organs and in 77 we beautified them and we set upon our Altar this Image which they knick-named Saint Michael and Pamphleteers say the Rhemish Annotations call him next to Christ and the Son of God c. and when we had got Saint Michael up then in 77 Mr. Whitebread a Kinsman of that father Whitebread that was hang'd for the damnable Popish Plot he gives us a rich Crimson Carpet with a brave embroidered Glory of the Sun upon it with a Cross with this Inscription in the Margin and as soon as we had this we took up our clean white Linnen Cloath which the Act of Conformity directs should be used and which we covered the Table formerly with on Communion Days so as our Linnen Cloath hung down to the ground in the West Front of our Communion Table nay People would perswade us our Communion Table looks like an Altar Because it stands the Altar fashion with ends North and South as the Papists do set theirs Joyning close to the Commandments so that we cause the back part or East side of our Linnen to be tackt up about a foot or more above the Table fastening it to the Commandments and they further alledge that the Act of Conformity does not direct the tacking it up thus to the Altar for some say that by the Act of Uniforminy it may be allowed for the Table to stand a yard off from the Commandments in the Chancel especially in our Chancel because there is room enough to stand so in the inward side of the Rails Nay they say that the Communion-Table may by that very Act stand in the Body of the Church and then they say it would not look so like an Altar they say that instead of the clean white Linnen of our Mother Church we shew now nothing in our front but this new glorious rich Crimson gift of Mr. Whitebread and we have registred it in our Table hanging in our Vestry by the Title of one of our Church Ornaments so that they reproach us and say we have turned up the clean white Tippet of our virtuous Mother meaning the white Linnen which the Act of Uniformity directs we should use and foulded the forepart of our Linnen now on the Table on purpose to shew in our front such rich Embroidery as is not appointed by the said Act. They further tell us not only that we say second service at this Communion-Table or

stand Trumpetting there on the Commandments with his face towards the Organs I find no reason upon Record in our Church Registers but some late Expositors or Modern Casuists in our Parish say it is that Saint Michael may with his Trumpet respond to the Organs Nay some Learned men in the Act of Conformity say the Act of Conformity does not forbid us with a Trumpet of Saint Michael to respond to the Organ and Learned men Lecturers of Mr. Saunders cast always excepted say that the Act of Conformity does not direct the People and Clark to Respond in the Reading Psalms but hold that it is Contra formam Statuti Well what if some of it be contrary to Law if yet we can say it is Secundum usum Sarum Hereford York Bangor Lincoln or some or all of them or if we can get it pass unexamined conclude utrum horum mavis Accipe Hab Nab at a venture What matter is it may we not say all we do is Conformity and as Mr. Saunders most elegantly phraseth it that there is not a more serious and regulary devout Parish in this City of London then this of Alhallows Baerkin is Gentlemen what shall I do I displeased the Papists by pulling down one Image but I please them again in promising them to set up ten for one but I hope they will stay till the condition is fulfilled that I am convinced they are Ornaments and in my Conscience Papists will sooner make it out then Mr. Sanders But then on the other side I am envied by all kind of Phanaticks and Quakers for my rigid Conformity and for my forcing the Quakers to shut up their shops at Christmas and other good days insomuch as we have not one Conventicle in all our Parish for fear of my prosecuting them and after all this Out and Alas is it come to this That you Doctor and Gentlemen of the Vestry should talk of prosecuting me for burning an Image which you call your Ornament O! Would I had never been Churchwarden even share and take the Office among you who will so as I may never be Churchwarden of this Parish more as long as the Sun and Moon endure But prry deal gently with me because I have had the Great Honour as some of you are pleased to call it to be Churchwarden of this Parish of All Saints Barkin London which at this time and on so laudable an occasion as an Image is printed to be so regularly devout a Parish but the Prints that calls it so are both Titled an Apparition c. and therefore I am afraid that we shall have but a little share of that Honour because we pulled down and burnt a rotten Image and behold the vain Apparitions both disappear But Doctor and Gentelemen if all this will not satisfie you then in verbo Guardani Ecclesiae or in as plain English as a Layman and an expiring Churchwarden can utter at drawing out the last breath of his Office who though he ought not to go out us he comes in swearing yet I cannot forbear to say by the Oath of a Churchwarden turn the Buckle of your Girdle behind you For I challenge you to charge me with any undue exeution of my Office and then for any other Foreign Matter I care not what you say for if it be any thing that does not belong to this Office it will be thought not only impertinent but malicious As for Doctor Hicks he came to our Parish upon the Death of Doctor Layfield but about eight months ago I had the honour to give him his Induction and he cannot charge me with any disrespect towards him These Ceremonies were begun by Mr. Sanders before Dr. Hicks came and the Dr. finding them is pleased to continue them only the Dr. never Bows and he is so kind to us as to come from the Altar as far as the Rails to read some part of the Service whereby we hear the Dr. better than Mr. Sanders because Mr. Sanders will not budg a foot but keeps his station at the North end of the Table Thus the Dr. and Lecturer do dissent from each other in performance of the Ceremonies whereupon some late Prints have told us that men of least Learning are for most Ceremonies The blame now appears to lye upon Mr. Sanders for setting up such Ceremanies at such a juncture of time And if blame also may lye upon all the Churchwadens that had a hand in setting up or removing or burning this Image Let every one then shew so good occasion for the part they have acted as I have done for my part in pulling of it down and burning it What if I had never been Indicted at Sessions at all might I not nay ought I not to have done it when it had given such offences The Organs stand on the Gallery a Considerable Distance from the Steeple and Mr. Clements had no Vestry Order to alter the Dyal on the Steeple yet he did bring the Dial about 10 Foot forwarder then it was and if ever be occasion any Jury or any body else may see he might have had room enough to have placed this Image again in a void space of 10 foot square between Death and Time or just under Death or Time or in some other place there abouts where it might have been conspicuous enough if the view were so essentially necessary without taking so great a leap as from the Steeple to the Chancel and so as Mr. Sanders Phraseth it as to you Here is the End Your Late Upper Church-warden Edmond Sherman POSTSCRIPT THIS Image was a Great Carved Guilded Image and about a yard and half long with great broad spreading Wings each Wing about three quartters of a yard long the right Arm and Hand was in its full proportion holding a Trumpet near to its Mouth the left hand appeared as it were but just coming out of its shoulder holding up the end of a Label of Lead the other end of the Label hung down to his right foot On the Label was wrote to this effect Arise you dead and come to Judgment his face hands and feet painted all the rest of it was guilded It had no Dragon under it yet in weight about 18 or 20 stone Mr. Jonathan Sanders Lecturer Sir In execution of my office of Churchwarden having found two late Vagabond Brats in our Parish Christened I suppose without any Canonical Gossips by the frightful names of Apparitions They are here brought home to your door pray take your Brats again you being Father and Godfather also to both I find it also just to charge your late bowing Ceremonies c. to be the Stallion that have occasionally begot these Brats and all this noise and pother yet I have done it with as little personal reflection as to any Foreign Matter as possibly I could because for me or you to rail and rip up each others only by bedaubing the other with stories how true soever yet impertinent to