It could neither write nor read.

The Committee said that verify
To Popery it was bent:
For ought I know, it might be so,
For to church it never went.
What with excise, and such device,
The kingdom doth begin
To think you'll leave them ne'er a cross
Without doors nor within.

Methinks the Common-council should
Of it have taken pity,
'Cause, good old cross, it always stood
So firmly to the city.
Since crosses you so much disdain,
Faith, if I were as you,
For fear the King should rule again
I'd pull down Tiburn too.


Whitlocke says, "May 3rd, 1643, Cheapside Cross and other crosses
were voted down," &c. When this vote was put in execution does not
appear; probably not till many mouths after Tomkins and Chaloner
had suffered.

We had a very curious account of the pulling down of Cheapside
Cross lately published in one of the Numbers of the GENTLEMEN'S
MAGAZINE, 1766. - PERCY'S RELIQUES.