Volume 1

Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters.

Date:
[1819?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    growth as to admit the practicability of its be¬ comings the door of so stately an edifice. This, however, was understood as being literally the purport of the prediction, an idea which ulti¬ mately proved to be erroneous, as the meaning was quite different. At the time of the reform¬ ation, when plunder and rapine were carried on under the sanction of religion, and with the pre¬ tence of banishing superstition and pulling down idolatry, they spared not the most revered lineaments of antiquity. The most valuable paint¬ ings, and figures of the best workmanship, were irrecoverably lost in one common fit of destructive zeal. Vale-royal became subject to these de¬ vastations, and this thorn, amongst the rest, being cut down, was cast into the door-way, to prevent sheep, which grazed in the court, Trom going in; thus was fulfilled another prophecy, which considerably augmented the celebrity of our Pr<iphet. But the reformation he declares in still plainer terms; for he says, “ A time shall come when priests and monks Shall have no churches nor houses,