124 Images destroyed in Salisbury Cathedral. 
After all, nothing has been here said to prove that Cromwell in 
particular has been libelled by Mr. Hatcher; but this is a case of 
implication, since those who have not the erudition of Mr. Hatcher, 
never hesitate to lay every enormity of that period on the Protec- 
tor’s shoulders. To the mass of mankind, his is the only big figure 
looming out of the thick darkness. This unsought pre-eminence 
has naturally drawn around it a popular superstition, attributing 
to him the accumulated desolations of more than one age, and the 
sword of Cromwell becomes the only visible agent in the removal, 
not only of the sacred head of royalty, but of the fractured nose of 
the alabaster Cupid who bedews the sepulchral effigy of a modern 
churchwarden. 
The real spoliators of 
Salisbury Cathedral were 
Bishop Barrington and 
his advisers. To say 
nothing of the pulling 
about of the interior, 
into the merits of 
which question this is 
not the place to enter, 
the lost belfry will ever 
be a subject of lamenta- 
tion. The annexed cut, 
though but a rude re- 
presentation of that 
building, exhibits the 
massiveness of construc- 
tion which could offer 
an inviting refuge to 
Ludlow’s troopers. 
J. WaAYLEN. 
DANE uO == 
‘BELFRY oF SALISBURY ieee Ai. 
