From the Canterbury Cathedral guide book:
"Many of the Cathedral treasures disappeared at that time [1540, dissolution of the monasteries]. More destruction followed. During the Commonwealth period, Parliamentary soldiers rode into the Cathedral and wantonly broke the organ, the font, and many monuments. They burnt the Prayer Books and smashed the windows. For quite some years afterwards the Cathedral became a desolate place."
When it says "rode into the Cathedral," they mean on horses. They even used the nave as a horse stable. Cromwell did the same nonsense in the ancestral home of Exeter, that is, at St. Peter's Anglican Cathedral, Exeter, UK. Disrupted the Holy Communion services and commanding, "Away with all this tom-foolery!"
See: http://canterbury-cathedral.org/assets/files/docs/pdf/schools/A_QuickGuide_to_Canterbury_Cathedral.pdf
Charming chaps, weren't they? Burning Prayer Books? Good Queen Bess's 1559 Books of Common Prayer with the Thirty-nine Articles? Behold the Puritans then; behold them now, especially in a nation of exhorters, evangelicals and revivalists. These enthusiasts have simply tossed rather than burned the Prayer Books...tossing the doctrines, worship and quiet piety of Anglican Prayer Book Churchmanship. There are many assumptions that belay these views.
"Many of the Cathedral treasures disappeared at that time [1540, dissolution of the monasteries]. More destruction followed. During the Commonwealth period, Parliamentary soldiers rode into the Cathedral and wantonly broke the organ, the font, and many monuments. They burnt the Prayer Books and smashed the windows. For quite some years afterwards the Cathedral became a desolate place."
When it says "rode into the Cathedral," they mean on horses. They even used the nave as a horse stable. Cromwell did the same nonsense in the ancestral home of Exeter, that is, at St. Peter's Anglican Cathedral, Exeter, UK. Disrupted the Holy Communion services and commanding, "Away with all this tom-foolery!"
See: http://canterbury-cathedral.org/assets/files/docs/pdf/schools/A_QuickGuide_to_Canterbury_Cathedral.pdf
Charming chaps, weren't they? Burning Prayer Books? Good Queen Bess's 1559 Books of Common Prayer with the Thirty-nine Articles? Behold the Puritans then; behold them now, especially in a nation of exhorters, evangelicals and revivalists. These enthusiasts have simply tossed rather than burned the Prayer Books...tossing the doctrines, worship and quiet piety of Anglican Prayer Book Churchmanship. There are many assumptions that belay these views.
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