This had such an effect, that they cut
down the draw-bridge, and shut the gates
against Wyat, as he arrived in South-
wark; he therefore marched up the river,
crossed the Thames at Kingston, and pro-
ceeded through Westminster to Ludgate;
but not being admitted by his friends in
the city, as he expected, he generously sur-
rendered himself, to prevent bloodshed, and
was soon after beheaded on Tower hill.

The rest of this reign exhibited a dread-
ful scene of religious bigotry, by a most
cruel persecution of the Protestants; for
the principle instance she gave of her ten-
der maternal love to the citizens, was, her
causing many of them to be burnt in
Smithfield, in order to put a stop to the
reformation begun by her father, and con-
tinued by her brother: but Providence
soon interposed; her reign was short; and
the fires which were then kindled for the
holy martyres, who sealed their faith with
their blood, were the last effort, under the
sanction of law, made by religious tyran-
ny in this kingdom to overthrow the re-
formation.  Happy would it have been
for the Protestants, if this cruel spirit had
never prevailed amongst them; if, upon
this change, universal benevolence had
taken place, and every Briton would have
allowed his neighbour the same liberty of

We are now come to the period when
our streets were no longer to be croud-
ed with monks and friars of various
orders, and in very different and uncouth
habits, walking with their heads shaven
and bare, with long beards, and a rosary
hanging at their girdles; when our nobi-
lity and gentry were to be no longer af-
fronted in the streets by Cardinals, attend-
ed by a great retinue of servants: by the
lordly Knights of religious orders, or the
wealthy Priors of convents: when our
streets were no longer to be adorned with
crosses and the images of the saints, the
objects of much superstition; and when
many of our largest, most conspicuous,
and stately buildings, were no longer to
consist of priories, nunneries, and
guilds of religious fraternities.