[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] At the comming backe of the lord protector from his iourneie into Scotland, the citizens of London determined to haue receiued him with great tri|umph: but he hearing thereof, forbad them in anie wise so to doo:

for (said he) if anie thing hath béene doone to the honour of the realme, it was Gods doo|ing, and therefore willed them to giue him the praise.

Neuerthelesse the maior and aldermen, with cer|teine of the commoners in their liueries and their hoods,The lord pro|tectors re|turne. hearing of his approch to the citie, the eight daie of October met him in Finnesburie field, where he tooke each of them by the hand, and thanked them for their good wils. The lord maior did ride with him till they came to the pound in Smithfield, where his grace left them, and rode to his house of Shene that night, and the next daie to the king to Hampton court. The fourth daie of Nouember began a par|lement, called and holden at Westminster,A parleme [...]. which continued till the foure and twentith of December next following, & was then proroged. In this parle|ment, all colleges, chanteries, and frée chappels were giuen to the king, and the statute of the six articles was repealed, with diuerse others tending to the like end. Moreouer, during this parlement visiters be|ing appointed to visit in London, the sixtéenth of No|uember began to take downe the images in Paules church: and shortlie after all the images in euerie church, not onelie through London, but also through|out the whole realme, were pulled downe and de|faced.