NOTES TO INTRODUCTION. XIV churchwardens and other officers are hereby required to be aiding and assisting in the execution of this order." Ibid. 5 Feb. 1643-4. "Ordered, That it be referred to the Come for superstitious pictures, where Sir Rob. Harley has the chair, to take into their custody the copes and surplices and other chapel stuff at Whitehall, and to view the superstitious pictures about Whitehall, and to report what they are. They are likewise to search and view all the plate in Sir H. Mildmay's custody, and search and view such other things in Whitehall as they shall think fit. Ordered, That the product of goods, copes, and surplices seized at Whitehall, and also the plate in Sir H. Mildmay's custody belonging to his Majesty, be employed and disposedof to the Lady Essex, for payment of arrears to Sir W. Essex, her husband, who died at Oxford, and the remainder to Col. Ven, for payment of arrears due to the garrison of Windsor." Ibid. 17 April, 1644. "Resolved, That the chest or silver vessel in St. Paul's shall be sold for the best advantage, and employed towards providing necessaries for the artillery by the Come at Grocers' Hall." 23 April, 1644. " Ordered, That the materials informed of by Sir Rob. Harley be forthwith sold by Sir Rob. Harley, viz. the mitre and crosier-staff found in St. Paul's Church, London, and the brass and iron in Hen. VII. Chapel, Westminster, and the pro- ceeds thereof, the necessary charges deducted, be employed according to the direction of the House." Ibid. 25 April, 1644. " That Sir Rob. Harley do report on Saturday the ordinance for defacing copes, &c. &c." "The ordinance for taking away altars, levelling chancel-floors recently raised, tapers, candlesticks, basins, crucifixes, crosses, images, and pictures of the Holy Trinity or Virgin Mary, and all other images and pictures of saints and superstitious inscriptions excepted, images, pictures, coats of arms in glass, stone, or otherwise, in any church, chapel, or a churchyard, set up or engraven for a monument of any king, prince, nobleman, or other dead person, who had not commonly been reported or taken for a saint. "-Neal's Hist. of the Puritans, by Toulmin, vol. iii. p. 644. Page x. Master of the Mint, &c. -Journ. H. Com. 6 March, 1642-3. " Ordered, that Sir Rob. Harley shall have power to give a privy mark for the pixe money in the Mint, and that he bring in an ordinance for the restoring of himself to his place in the Mint." See other notices inJourn. H. Com. 3 and 5 May, 1643. Self-denying Ordinance.-The self-denying ordinance concludes thus: " Provided always, and it is hereby declared that those members of either house who had offices by grant from his Majesty before the parliament, and were by his Majesty displaced sitting this parliament, and have since by authority of both houses been restored, shall not by this ordinancebe discharged from the said offices or profits thereof, but shall enjoy the same, any thing in this ordinance to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. "-Parl. Hist. vol. iii. p. 355. The Mastership at the Mint, worth 4,0001. a-year in Sir Robert's time : in the time of £4,000 a-year. Sir Isaac Newton it was considered to be worth from 1,2001. to 1,4001. a year.
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