' Jonson refers to the
disaster
in his
_Execration upon Vulcan_, _U.
_Execration upon Vulcan_, _U.
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=1. 1. 56 the top of Pauls-steeple. = As Gifford points out, Iniquity
is boasting of an impossible feat. St. Paul's steeple had been
destroyed by fire in 1561, and was not yet restored. Several attempts
were made and money collected. 'James I. countenanced a sermon at
_Paul's Cross_ in favor of so pious an undertaking, but nothing was
done till 1633 when reparations commenced with some activity, and
Inigo Jones designed, at the expense of Charles I. , a classic portico
to a Gothic church. '--Wh-C.
Lupton, _London Carbonadoed_, 1632, writes: 'The head of St. Paul's
hath twice been troubled with a burning fever, and so the city, to
keep it from a third danger, lets it stand without a head. ' Gifford
says that 'the Puritans took a malignant pleasure in this mutilated
state of the cathedral.
' Jonson refers to the disaster in his
_Execration upon Vulcan_, _U. 61_, _Wks. _ 8. 408. See also Dekker,
_Paules Steeples complaint_, _Non-dram. Wks. _ 4. 2.
=1. 1. 56 Standard in Cheepe. = This was a water-stand or conduit
in the midst of the street of West Cheaping, where executions were
formerly held. It was in a ruinous condition in 1442, when it was
repaired by a patent from Henry VI. Stow (_Survey_, ed. Thoms, p.
100) gives a list of famous executions at this place, and says that
'in the year 1399, Henry IV.
=1. 1. 56 the top of Pauls-steeple. = As Gifford points out, Iniquity
is boasting of an impossible feat. St. Paul's steeple had been
destroyed by fire in 1561, and was not yet restored. Several attempts
were made and money collected. 'James I. countenanced a sermon at
_Paul's Cross_ in favor of so pious an undertaking, but nothing was
done till 1633 when reparations commenced with some activity, and
Inigo Jones designed, at the expense of Charles I. , a classic portico
to a Gothic church. '--Wh-C.
Lupton, _London Carbonadoed_, 1632, writes: 'The head of St. Paul's
hath twice been troubled with a burning fever, and so the city, to
keep it from a third danger, lets it stand without a head. ' Gifford
says that 'the Puritans took a malignant pleasure in this mutilated
state of the cathedral.
' Jonson refers to the disaster in his
_Execration upon Vulcan_, _U. 61_, _Wks. _ 8. 408. See also Dekker,
_Paules Steeples complaint_, _Non-dram. Wks. _ 4. 2.
=1. 1. 56 Standard in Cheepe. = This was a water-stand or conduit
in the midst of the street of West Cheaping, where executions were
formerly held. It was in a ruinous condition in 1442, when it was
repaired by a patent from Henry VI. Stow (_Survey_, ed. Thoms, p.
100) gives a list of famous executions at this place, and says that
'in the year 1399, Henry IV.
