. Walks in London . uffer for the most gloriouscause that ever was in the world. As he was about todie, having his face towards the Banqueting House atWhitehall, one, in derision, called to him, and said, * Whereis your good old cause ? He, with a cheerful smile, clapthis hand on his breast, and said, * Here it is. and I am goingto seal it with my blood. Three days after, Hugh Peters,who had preached against Charles I. at St. Margarets as** the great Barabbas at Windsor, with Cook the republicancounsel, suffered on the same spot, and afterwards eightothei of the regicides. Here, where hif murd
. Walks in London . uffer for the most gloriouscause that ever was in the world. As he was about todie, having his face towards the Banqueting House atWhitehall, one, in derision, called to him, and said, * Whereis your good old cause ? He, with a cheerful smile, clapthis hand on his breast, and said, * Here it is. and I am goingto seal it with my blood. Three days after, Hugh Peters,who had preached against Charles I. at St. Margarets as** the great Barabbas at Windsor, with Cook the republicancounsel, suffered on the same spot, and afterwards eightothei of the regicides. Here, where hif murderers iiad STATUE OF CHARLES 7. 3 perished, the Statue of Charles /., the noblest statue inLondon, was set up in 1674. The figure of the king iswhat it professes to be—royal^ and gains by being attired,not in the conventional Roman costume, but in a dresssuch as he wore, and by being seated on a saddle suchas he used. It is the work of Hubert Le Sueur, and wasoriginally ordered by the Lord Treasurer Weston for his. At Charing Cross. gardens at Roehampton. Walpole narrates that it wassold by the Parliament to one John Rivet, a brazier,living at the Dial near Holborn Conduit, with strict ordersto break it to pieces. Instead of doing this he con-cealed it in the vaults under the Church of St. Paul, CoventGarden, and making some brass handles for knives, and pro-ducing them as fragments of the statue, realised a large sum * Only the names of still existing (1S77) monuments and buildings are printed iaitalics. 4 fVALKS IN LONDON, by theii sale, as well to royalists who bought them from loveof the king, as to rebels who saw in them a mark of theirtriumph. At the Restoration the statue was mounted uponits present beautiful pedestal, which is the work of JoshuaMarshall^ Master Mason to the Crown, and which, tillrecently, was always wreathed with oak on the 29th of May,the anniversary of the Restoration. The metal roundthe fore-foot of the horse bears the inscription HVBER(T)LE SVEVR
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