Comments on: Cheapside cross http://mercuriuspoliticus.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/cheapside-cross/ A blog (mostly) about early modern culture Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:09:24 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: mercuriuspoliticus http://mercuriuspoliticus.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/cheapside-cross/#comment-108 mercuriuspoliticus Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:15:39 +0000 http://mercuriuspoliticus.wordpress.com/?p=156#comment-108 Well, I wouldn't have looked unless you'd done the hard work of finding out about the pamphlets! I think you're right, the woodcut is a CCTV caught in the act equivalent of the damage being done. There's also another nice image of vandals, this time appropriately labelled with their various sects, in a 1641 pamphlet which also has crosses speaking - this time it's the Cheapside and Charing crosses talking to each other. (See update in post above for the image). Well, I wouldn’t have looked unless you’d done the hard work of finding out about the pamphlets! I think you’re right, the woodcut is a CCTV caught in the act equivalent of the damage being done.

There’s also another nice image of vandals, this time appropriately labelled with their various sects, in a 1641 pamphlet which also has crosses speaking – this time it’s the Cheapside and Charing crosses talking to each other. (See update in post above for the image).

]]> By: royjb http://mercuriuspoliticus.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/cheapside-cross/#comment-107 royjb Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:28:11 +0000 http://mercuriuspoliticus.wordpress.com/?p=156#comment-107 Ah, well done, Mercurius. As you see, I have finally bestirred myself to sign on to comment on Wordpress; I also ought to bestir myself to do some proper research into the pamphlets I so casually write about - well, thanks for sweeping up the mess! No surprise at all if John Taylor is involved - London (check), politics (check), pamphlet dispute (check). The woodcut shows the very moment of iconoclasm, doesn't it, with the intrepid vandal up on the spiked rails? Ah, well done, Mercurius. As you see, I have finally bestirred myself to sign on to comment on WordPress; I also ought to bestir myself to do some proper research into the pamphlets I so casually write about – well, thanks for sweeping up the mess! No surprise at all if John Taylor is involved – London (check), politics (check), pamphlet dispute (check). The woodcut shows the very moment of iconoclasm, doesn’t it, with the intrepid vandal up on the spiked rails?

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