Note 385 — Chapter XIII

Mr. Bruen, of Tarvin, in the Deanery of Chester, an eminent Puritan (born 1560, died 1625) "the phœnix of his age," distinguished himself as an iconoclast. Finding in his own chapel superstitious images, and idolatrous pictures in the painted windows, and they so thick and dark that there was, as he himself says, "scarce the breadth of a groat of white glass amongst them," took orders to pull them down, indeed by the Queen's injunctions utterly to extinguish and destroy all pictures, paintings, and other monuments of idolatry and superstition, so that there might remain no memory of the same in the walls, glass windows, or elsewhere within their churches and houses. The Bible and ecclesiastical history are appealed to as further authorities. Theodosius abscondit simulacra gentium, omnes enim cultus idolorum cultus ejus abscondit; omnes eorum ceremonias obliteravit. Ambrosii Orat. in Mort. Theo.—See Hinde's Life of Bruen.