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cellatiy . Indeed the article speaks for itself , and your intelligent readers may be gratified with its insertion . I an Sir , Yours , J- EVANS . " Dr . Novell , Dean of St . Paulas , having gotten several fine cuts and pictures representing the stories and passions of the saints and martyrs , caused them to be bound up" in a Common Prayer Book and laid it for the Queen ' s
use in the place where she com * rnonly sat , intending it for a New Year ' s Gift to her Majesty and thinking to have pleased her fancy therewith . But it had not that effect but - the contrary , * for she considered how this varied from
her late injunctions and proclamations against the superstitious use of images in churches , and taking away all such relics of popery . When sbe came t © her place at St * Paul's , she opened the book
an ^ J perused it and saw the pic . tu £ es , but frowned and blushed and then shut it , and calling the verger bad him bring her the old )? OQk wherein she was formerly wont to read . After sermon
instead of taking horse , &c . she immediately went into the vestry and applied herself to the Dean thus : Q . Mr , Dean how came it to pass , that a new service book was placed on my cushion ?
2 ? , May it please your majesty , I caused it to be placed there . Q . Wherefore did you so ? Z )* To . present your majesty witb a New YearVGift .
Qi . You could never present me with a worse / JD . W : hy SO 9 Madam ? Q . You know I have an aversion to idolatry , to images and pk > lures of this kind .
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: __ jD . Wherein is the idolatry , may i , t please your majesty ? Q . In the cuts resembling angels * and s& * ntsy nay grosser absurdities—pictures resembling the Blessed Trinity ! D . I meant no harm , nor did I think it would offend your majesty when I intended it for a New Year ' s Gift . Q . You must needs be ignorant then . Have your forgot our proclamation against images , pictures and Romish relics in the churches ? Was it not read in your Deanery ?
J ) . It was read . But be your majesty assured 1 meant no harm whei \ I caused the cuts to be bound up with the service book . Q . You * must needs be very ignorant to do this after our prohibition of them .
D * It being my ignorance , your majesty may the better pardon me . Q . I am sorry for it , yet glad to hear it was your ignorance rather than your opinion . D . Be your majesty assured it
was my ignorance . Q \ If so , Mr . Dean , God grant you his spirit , and more wisdom for the future . £ > . Amen . I pray God .
Q . I pray Mr . Dean haw came you b y these pictures ? Who engraved them ? JD . I know not who engraved them , I bought them . Q . From whom bought you them ?
JD . From a German . Q . It is well it was from a strange r ^ had it been any of our subject ^ we sKould hav e questioned the matter . ? JPray let no more q £ these mistakes pjj qf this ^ iji 4 ; b committed within the churches of this realm for the future .
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« ' } £ 2 An ancient ISTeto Years Gift . i
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1812, page 22, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1744/page/22/
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