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 with them; and meeting with some of the choristers of the church, whose surplices they had stolne before, and imployed them to base servile offices, scoffingly told them, Boyes we have spoyled your trade, you must goe and sing hot pudding pyes." At Peterborough, after commiting all kinds of devastation, "when their unhallowed toylings had made them out of wind, they took breath afresh on two pair of organs." At Canterbury they "violated the monuments of the dead, and spoyled the organs"; and at Chichester "they brake down the organs, and dashing the pipes with their pole-axes, scoffingly said, Harke, how the organs goe." At Winchester "they entered the church with colours flying, and drums beating; they rode up through the body of the church and quire, until they came to the altar, there they rudely pluck downe the table and brake the rayle, and afterwards carrying it to an ale-house, they set it on fire, and in that fire burnt the Booke of Common Prayer, and all