796 The HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap.XÌI. K. Charlesl. Though the parliament and puritan clergy were averle to cathedral wor.. 1642. )(hip; that is, to a variety of muscat infiruments, ehorifters, finging of Of the rathe-. prayers, anthems, &c. as'unfuitable to the folemnityand and fimplicity drals. of divine fervice, yet was it not prohibited ; and though the revenues of prebendaries and deans, &c. had been voted ufelefs; and more fit to be applied to the maintenance of preaching miniflers, yet the ftipends of thofe who did not take part with the king, were not fequeftered till the latter end of the year 1645. when it was ordained, " That the deans and pre- " bendaries of Wjiminf%r who had abfented themfelves, or were delín- " quents, or had not taken the covenant, fhould be fufpended from their " feveral offices and places, except Mr. Osbaldon ; " but the names titles and offices of deans and chapters, were not abolifhed till after the king's death, in the .year 1649. the parliament proceeding with force caution, as long as there was any profpe6.1 of an accommodation with the king. Indeed the beauty of the cathedrals was in force meafure defaced about this time, by the ordinance for the removing crucifixes, images,.pic- Lures, and other monuments offuperflition our of churches. Many fine . paintings in the windows and on the walls were broken and deftroyed,. without a decent repair of the damage. In Lambeth-Chapel the organ was taken down [Nov. 25.] The following fummer the paintings, pic- tures, fuperftitious ornaments and images were defaced, or removed out of the cathedrals of Canterbury, Rocheßer, Chichefler, Winchefter, Wor, ceder, Lincoln, Litchfield, Salisbury, Glouceer, St. Paul's in London, Dr. \Val- the collegiate church of We/iminfler, &c. " But (lays my author) I do leer's fuNer- << not find that they then feized the revenues and eflates of the cathedrals, f t e c' but contented- themfelves with plundering and imprifoning Tome of the principal: members, and difperfing many of the reft ; and feveral of. thofe places coming afterwards into his majefty's hands, the fervice did " not wholly ceafe, nor were the doors of thofe ftately fabricks finally . clofed at that time." TheAriaob- Though the difcipline of the church was at an end, there was never fervation of thelefs an uncommon fpirit of devotion among people in the parliament thefabbarh. quarters;. the Lord's day was obferved with remarkable ftrilinefs, the churches being crouded with numerous and attentive hearers three or four times in the, day.;. the officers of the peace patroled the ftreets, and fhut up all public, houles;. there was no travelling on the road, or walking in the fields, except in cafes of abfolute neceffity. Religious exercifes were let up in private families, as reading the fcriptures, family prayer, repeating fermons, and finging pfalms, which was fo univerfal that you might walk through the city of London on the evening of the Lord's day, without.feeing an, idle perfon, or hearing any thing but the voiceof prayer or praife from churches and private. houles..
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