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Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ughs ofoak. The poet Waller praised the king and thestatue with most courtly panegyric, but AndrewMarvell contrived to make a good deal of fun outof both, and in the following way :—Sir RobertVyner, Lord Mayor of London, about that timehad put up an etiuestrian statue of Charles II. atthe Stocks Market, on the spot where the MansionHouse now stands; and as Marvell had not muchmore love for the one than for the other monarch,he wrote a clever satiric dialogue purporting to be 126 OLD AND NEW LONDON. rCharing Cross. hdJ between the two rival horses. Each horse j had omitted to put girths to the saddle and trap-reviled the king who bestrode the other horse— j pings of the horse, till it was too late to remedythe one attacking the profligacy of Charles II., the the defect, put an end to his existence. Theother the despotic conduct of Charles I. The omission is stated to have been pointed out by aCharing Cross steed making an attack on the countryman. Horace Walpole observes of it that
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THE king's mews. (From a View by Wale, about 1750.) Stocks Market monarch, said, amongst other bitterthings, that it was wondrous That he should be styled Defender of Faith,Who believes not a word that the word of (lod saith. And added, in alkision to the current belief thatCharles II. liad jjrofessed himself a RomanCatholic :— Thou>;h changed his religion, 1 hope hes so civilNot to think his own father is gone to the devil. It has been said, but we know not with howmtic li (jf truth, that the scul-ptor, on finding that he the commanding grace of the figure and theexquisite form of the horse, are striking even tothe most unpractised eye. The sword held by Charles, or rather by hisstatue here, is a modern one. The story of tliesubstitution of the new sword for the old one,which we take from Cliambers Book of Days, isa strange one:—-In Notes and Queries for 1850,Mr. Planche asked, ^ When did the real swordwhich, but a few years back, hung at the side ofthe equestrian statue of King

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