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Excerpt from The History of the Life and Acts of the Most Reverend Father in God, Edmund Grindal: The First Bishop of London, and the Second Archbishop of York and Canterbury Successively, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
September 16, the rood, with Mary and John, belonging And at St. To St. Magnus church, was burnt at the corner of Fish magnus' street, together with Other superstitious things pertaining to that church; which no question wanted not for things of that sort, Maurice Griffith, a violent Papist, and Bishop of Rochester, being lately incumbent, and about seven or eight 26 months before buried there. So that from Bartholomew tide, and so forward, within a month's time, or less, -were de stroyed all the roods, church-images, church-goods, with copes, crosses, censers, altar-cloths, mod-cloths, books, ban ner-staves, wainscot, with much other such like gear, in and about London. These were some of the matters that passed in the visitation of 'this city; whereof, not long after, our Divine was called to be Bishop.
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