FROM THE ACCESSION OF THE STUARTS TILL THE DESTRUCTION OF THE
CATHEDRAL.
_Fresh signs of Decay and Neglect_--_Visit of James I._--_Bishop
Earle's Account of Paul's Walk_--_Laud's Letter to the Citizens_
--_Sir Paul Pindar's Munificence_--_The Rebellion_--_Monuments
of the Stuart Period:_ _Carey_, _Donne_, _Stokesley_, _Ravis_,
_King_, _Vandyke_--_Attempts at Restoration:_ _Inigo Jones_,
_Wren_--_The Great Fire:_ _Accounts of Pepys and Evelyn_,
_Eye-witnesses_--_Sancroft's desire to Restore the Old Cathedral
found quite impossible_--_Final Decision to Build a New One._
We saw how, in the reign of Elizabeth, a great calamity befell the
cathedral in the falling of the spire, and through this the great
injury to the roof, and further how the Queen, as well as the
citizens, endeavoured to repair the damage. The spire was not rebuilt,
but the roof was renewed. But fifty years later it was discovered that
the work had been fraudulently done, and the church was falling to
pieces. James I. came with much ceremony, in consequence of the
importunities which he received, to survey the cathedral,[1] and in
consequence of what he saw he appointed a commission to consider what
steps should be taken.
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