Note 469 — Chapter XV
Reading edition
A year afterwards, we find the following statement in Perfect Occurrences (June 17, 1644), where after describing the cruel spoliation of Abingdon and Worcester by fire by the Cavaliers, the news-writer thus continues:—"I could here insert the platform of all their projects, had I room to bring it in, set forth in a picture, intended to be sent to Seville, in Spain, and to be hanged in the great cathedral there, this day brought before the Parliament, where the Queen directs the King to present his sceptre to the Pope, and all the Cavaliers with him, and popish leaders with her, rejoicing to see it, he having a joyant, [this means perhaps, joyan, a jewel] to resemble his Majesty and she the Virgin Mary, and this motto upon the cases: 'Para Sancta Aña de Sevilla.' This picture is to be hung up for public view, and is enough to convince the strongest malignant in England."