[1] Rev. xiv. 18.

[2] Seymour's Survey, i. 70.

[3] Carte Ormd. i. 329.

[4] Of this clumsy piece of sculpture we have the following account from Maitland's Survey, page 1,049:—"It is impossible to quit this place without taking notice of the equestrian statue raised here in honour of Charles II.; a thing in itself so exceedingly ridiculous and absurd, that it is in no one's power to look upon it without reflecting on the tastes of those who set it up. But when we enquire into the history of it, the farce improves upon our hands, and what was before contemptible, grows entertaining. This statue was originally made for John Sobieski, King of Poland, but, by some accident was left upon the workman's hands. About the same time the city was loyal enough to pay their devoirs to King Charles immediately upon his restoration; and finding this statue ready made to their hands, resolved to do it in the cheapest way, and convert the Polander into a Briton, and the Turk underneath into Oliver Cromwell, to make their compliment complete: and the turban upon the last mentioned figure is an undeniable proof of the truth of the story."

[5] The certificate says, eighty-nine parish Churches; but see the Act of Parliament and inscription on the monument.

[6] London's Remembrancer, page 33,—ten years before the fire.

[7] Oldmison, i. 547.

[8] Rapin, ii. 690.

[9] Robert, according to Rapin.

[10] Bishop Burnet and some others say he was a Papist.

[11] Burnet, Abr., 120.

[12] Howell, Impartial History of James II., i. 9.

[13] Echard, i. 169.

[14] Old. Hist. of the Church of Scotland, i. 207. [Transcriber's Note: The marker for this footnote is missing in the original; its location has been guessed.]

[15] Seymour, i. 454. [Transcriber's Note: The marker for this footnote is missing in the original; its location has been guessed.]

[16] Echard, iii. 168. [Transcriber's Note: The marker for this footnote is missing in the original; its location has been guessed.]

[17] Burnet, Abr. 121. [Transcriber's Note: The marker for this footnote is missing in the original; its location has been guessed.]

[18] It was a very miraculous circumstance, amidst all this destruction and public confusion, no person was known either to be burnt, or trodden to death in the streets.

[19] By statute 19 and 20, Car. II., it is enacted, That the citizens of London, and their successors for the time to come, may retain the memory of so sad a desolation, and reflect seriously on the manifold iniquities, which are the unhappy causes of such judgments: be it therefore enacted, that the second day of September (unless the same happen to be Sunday, and if so, then the next day following) be yearly for ever hereafter observed as a day of fasting and humiliation within the said city and liberties thereof, to implore the mercy of Almighty God upon the said city; to make devout prayers and supplications unto him, to divert the like calamity for the time to come.