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CHEAPSIDE CROSS. 135
Fourth caused the Blank Charters, made by Richard the
Second, to be burnt there: in the year 1450, Jack Cade
having gained possession of the city, sent to the Lord,
Scales to bring his prisoner, the Lord Say, from the
Tower to the Guildhall, whither he had called the Lord.
Mayor with his brethren; before whom he caused the
Lord Say to be arraigned, who craving to be tried by Ins
peers, was forthwith taken from his keeper, carried to the
standard in Cheapside, and there had his head chopped
off; which, being pitched upon a pike, was born before
him to Mile. End, whither he went to have conference
with the rebels of Essex; and by the tvay, meeting with
Sir James Cromer, High Sheriff of Kent, who had lately
married the Lord Say’s daughter, he caused his head
also to be struck off, and carried before him in derision.
There is several scarce pamphlets, extant, concerning
Cheapside Cross, some of which bear a wood-cut repre-
senting the figure of the Cross as it stood just before its
demolition; and others with the populace, soldiers, &c.
pulling it down ; but the most authentic view is that from
La Sere’s scarce book, containing a view of Cheapside,
from which one view is taken, and the Entry of Mary
de Medicis into London, on a visit to her son-in-law,
Charles I. The body of the pamphlets in contradiction
to their titles, give little or no historical relation to the
origin or history of what it promises.
A Remarkable thunder storm, zeith the Singular course
of the LIGHTNING.
f Communicated by D. B. L. of Nottingham.)
About two o’clock in the afternoon of Thursday, the
21st of August, 1794, two very black clouds were seen to-
wards the south west, which in their north-east course,
appeared to attract each other; this attractive power in
these
Fourth caused the Blank Charters, made by Richard the
Second, to be burnt there: in the year 1450, Jack Cade
having gained possession of the city, sent to the Lord,
Scales to bring his prisoner, the Lord Say, from the
Tower to the Guildhall, whither he had called the Lord.
Mayor with his brethren; before whom he caused the
Lord Say to be arraigned, who craving to be tried by Ins
peers, was forthwith taken from his keeper, carried to the
standard in Cheapside, and there had his head chopped
off; which, being pitched upon a pike, was born before
him to Mile. End, whither he went to have conference
with the rebels of Essex; and by the tvay, meeting with
Sir James Cromer, High Sheriff of Kent, who had lately
married the Lord Say’s daughter, he caused his head
also to be struck off, and carried before him in derision.
There is several scarce pamphlets, extant, concerning
Cheapside Cross, some of which bear a wood-cut repre-
senting the figure of the Cross as it stood just before its
demolition; and others with the populace, soldiers, &c.
pulling it down ; but the most authentic view is that from
La Sere’s scarce book, containing a view of Cheapside,
from which one view is taken, and the Entry of Mary
de Medicis into London, on a visit to her son-in-law,
Charles I. The body of the pamphlets in contradiction
to their titles, give little or no historical relation to the
origin or history of what it promises.
A Remarkable thunder storm, zeith the Singular course
of the LIGHTNING.
f Communicated by D. B. L. of Nottingham.)
About two o’clock in the afternoon of Thursday, the
21st of August, 1794, two very black clouds were seen to-
wards the south west, which in their north-east course,
appeared to attract each other; this attractive power in
these