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Wherefore we desire you to take his cause into your serious con- 
sideration, and narrowly to weigh the number and quality of the 
witnesses and informers, looking upon him with such favourable 
inclinations as the due consideration of these premises do warrant. 
And what tenderness you please to afford him, shall be esteemed 
as an obligation upon, Your very assured friends, 
Joun DANvERs, JAMES HERBERT, 
WILLIAM STEPHENS, Joun Evetyn, 
Wiiram Lister. 
Such are the main facts connected with Dr. Wren’s share in the 
civil war, which might have been much extended by reciting in 
full all the evidence tendered. At the time when the last quoted 
document is supposed to have been written, his son Christopher 
was executing his treatise of spherical Trigonometry, having left 
Wiltshire for Wadham College, Oxford, in the previous year, 1646. 
(Wiltshire during the Civil Wars.) 
Wha destroyed the Smoages at the west end of 
Salisbury Cathedral? 
It is so common a practice to attribute to Oliver Cromwell every 
spoliation of which the traces remain in the ecclesiastical buildings 
of England, that any attempt to represent such a view as the off- 
spring of ignorant prejudice, may seem almost Quixotic. But, 
independently of the fact that the desecrations of this sort, which 
can with certainty be dated from the civil war, took place in the 
early part of that struggle, and before Oliver guided the counsels 
of the nation; it should be borne in mind, that the object even of 
the fanatical, was not so much to destroy existing institutions, as 
to usurp their revenues. In the Order, therefore, for abolishing 
superstitious relics, which may be seen in outline in the Lords’ 
Journals, IV, 392, the specific objects alluded to are very limited 
indeed. The design of the Act was nothing more than just to 
