Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Conventions
- Introduction
- 1 Attitudes to Images from the Reformation to the Meeting of the Long Parliament c. 1536–1640
- 2 The Argument for Reform: the Literature of Iconoclasm
- 3 Official Iconoclasm: the Long Parliament and the Reformation of Images
- 4 The Enforcement of Iconoclastic Legislation in the Localities
- 5 The Response in London
- 6 The Reformation of the Cathedrals
- 7 Iconoclasm at the Universities
- Conclusion
- Appendix I Parliamentary Legislation against Monuments of Superstition and Idolatry
- Appendix II Anti-Stuart Iconoclasm
- Appendix III William Dowsing's Commissions
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix II - Anti-Stuart Iconoclasm
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Conventions
- Introduction
- 1 Attitudes to Images from the Reformation to the Meeting of the Long Parliament c. 1536–1640
- 2 The Argument for Reform: the Literature of Iconoclasm
- 3 Official Iconoclasm: the Long Parliament and the Reformation of Images
- 4 The Enforcement of Iconoclastic Legislation in the Localities
- 5 The Response in London
- 6 The Reformation of the Cathedrals
- 7 Iconoclasm at the Universities
- Conclusion
- Appendix I Parliamentary Legislation against Monuments of Superstition and Idolatry
- Appendix II Anti-Stuart Iconoclasm
- Appendix III William Dowsing's Commissions
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The following orders were passed by the House of Commons after the execution of the king concerning the removal and defacing of Stuart arms and monuments. For the link between anti-monarchical and religious iconoclasm see chapter three.
15 February 1649 (CJ, vi, 142)
Ordered, That the Arms of the late King, over the Speaker's Chair, be forthwith taken down: And that the serjeant at Arms attending this House do cause a Carpenter to take down the same accordingly.
Ordered, That an Act be brought in for taking down the late King's Arms out of the several Courts in Westminster, and all other publick Places: And that the Arms of England be set up, in their stead, in the said several Places. Mr. Martyn is to bring in the said Act.
3 August 1649 (CJ, vi, 274)
Ordered, That Mr. Martyn, Mr. Garland, and Mr. Robinson, do bring in an Act for taking down and Demolishing the Arms of the late King in all publick Places; and likewise all Statues and Inscriptions.
9 April 1650 (CJ, vi, 394)
Resolved &c., That the Arms of the late King be taken down in all Ships of, and belonging to, this Commonwealth; as also of all Merchants, or others, inhabiting within the same: And that the Generals at Sea be required to see the same done accordingly.
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- Puritan Iconoclasm during the English Civil War , pp. 262 - 263Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2003