XI1V NOTES TO INTRODUCTION. therefore acquaint yor grandfather with it, beseeching him from mee, that he will reserve his voyces till we all meete to consult of ye fittest men for that service, that affection possesse notthe place of discretion in or election. So in haste p'esentingyou wth my newes, wch it may be is none to you, I commend you to or good God, and rest." " Sr R. Hop: " Sr, -I understand for newes yt wee shall shortly have a parlament, weh I desire to impart to you, as to my frend and loving kinsman, wt"all intreating you to reserve yor voyces for the election of the knights of this shire till we shall meete to deliberate and resolve of the fittest for that service, wherin I desire that neither faction nor affection, but discretion and true understanding, may poynt us out the men. So in hast." "Mr Ja. Fo: " S'', -I have newes that ye parlament will shortly be summoned, and I pray that my love may so fare prevayle wth you to entreate you to reserve yor voyces for electing ye knights of this shire till wee all meet to advise of such as shall be thought fitest for that service. So, etc." Page ix. The suppression of the surplice, &c. &c. -" The House of Commons made an order, and Sir Robert Harlow had the execution of it, to take away all scandalous pictures, crosses, and figures within churches and without. And the zealous knight took down the cross in Cheapside, Charing Cross, and other the like monuments impartially."-White- locke, 5 July, 1641, p. 45. This is certainly incorrect as to time, for in the Jour. H. Commons we find (1 March, 1641-2,) it " Ordered, That the Come on Cheapside Cross shall be revived." Again, "Cheapside Cross and other crosses were voted down. "-Whitelocke, 3 May, 1643. Evelyn says, 2 May, 1643, "I went from Wotton to London, where I saw the furious and zealous people demolish that stately cross in Cheapside." In the Supplement to the Gent. Mag. 1764, a plate and notice is given of the demolish- ing of Cheapside Cross. " 2 May, 1643, the Crosse in Cheapside was pulled down : a troope of hors and two companies of foote wayted to garde, and, at the fall of the top Crosse, dromes beat, trumpets blew, and multitudes of capes were thrown in the ayre, and a greate shoute of people with joy. The 2 May, the Almanake sayeth, was the Invention of the Crosse, and 6 day at night was the leaden popes burnt in the place where it stood, with ringing of bells and a great acclamation; and no hurt done in all these actions." Lilly, in his Observations on the Life of Charles I. (quoted by Percy in his Reliques of Ancient Poetry, in illustration of the ballad " On the Downfall of Charing Cross") says, " Charing Cross, we know, was pulled down 1647, June, July, and August. Part of the stones were converted to pave before Whitehall. I have seen knife-hafts made of some of the stones, which, being well polished, looked like marble." Jour. H. Com. 24 Ap. 1643. "Sir Robert Harley, Mr. White, Mr. Corbett, and others, a Committee to receive information from time to time of any monuments of super- stitious idolatry in the abbey church of Westminster, or the windows thereof, or in any church or chapel in and about London. And they have power to demolish the same, where any such superstitious or idolatrous monuments are informed to be. And the
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