33 a The I1ST' 0 RY cf the PUAirANS. Chap. IV. K. Charles I. (hop's heart was in this work, and to fupport the expense, gave way tomany 163Ú oppreffions and unjutlifiable methodsof railing money, by compofitions with recusants, commutations ofpenance, exorbitant fines .in the ftar-chamber and . high commiffion, infomuch that it became aproverb, that St. Paul's was repaired with thefinsof the people. Before the year r640. above one hun- dred and thirteen thoufand pounds was expended thereon, with which the Collyer. body of the church was finned, and the fteeple fcaffolded. There was Eed. Hlt alto a ftately portico built at the weft end, fupported with pillars of the R 751' Corinthian order, and embellifhed with the ftatuesof king names and king Charles ; but the rebuilding the fpire, and the infide decorations mif- carried, by the breaking out ofthe civil war. ecaratronr What thefe decorations and ornaments of paintings, carvings, altars, andpaintings crucifixes, candle:flicks, images, veflments, &c. would have been, can only of cathedrals lye ueffed by the fafhion of the times, and by the fçherne that was now and other formed to recover and repair the broken relicks offuperftition and_idolatry churcbe.r, p which the reformation had left, or to fet up others in imitation of them for though the reformation of queen Elizabeth had deftroyed a great many monuments of this kind ; yet force were left entire, and others Pari. Chron. very little defaced. In the cathedral of Canterbury, over -the door of the p. soi, choir, remained thirteen images, or ftatues of none; twelve of them re- prefenting the twelve apoftles, and the thirteenth in the middle of ;hem our Saviour Chrift. Over thefe were twelve other images of popifh faints Cathedra! of In the feveral windows of the cathedral were painted the picture of St. Canterbury. Agjlin the monk, the firft bifhop of that fee, and (even large pi Lures ofthe virgin Mary, with angels lifting her up to heaven, with this infcription, Gaude,Maria fponfa Dei. Under the virgin Mary's feet, were the fun moon and flats, and in the bottom of the window this infcription, In lau- dem f. honorem beatigimee virginis. Befides thefe, were many piólures of God theFather and of the Holy Ghoft, and of our Saviour lying in a manger, and a large image ofThomas Becket, and others ; all which were taken away by the long parliament. OfDurham. In the cathedral of Durham, there was an altar of marble (tone fet upon columns decorated withcherubims piétures and images, which colt above two thoufand pounds. There were three ftatues of ftone in the church ; one ftanding in the midft, reprefenting Chrift with a golden beard, a blue cap, and fun rays upon his head, as the record of parlia- ment Pays ; (though Dr. Coins, in his vindication, Pays it was miftaken for the top of bifhop Hatfield's tomb.) Therewas alto an image of God the Father, and many other carved images, piátures, &c. which the pre- fent dignitaries of the cathedral held in profound admiration ; and to keep up the pomp, they bought copes of mats priefts, with crucifixes and images of the trinity embroidered upon them. They had confecrated knives
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