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Plate 75. Cheapside Cross. The 2d. of May 1643 The Cross in Cheapside was pull'd down ... See Pennants London 3d. Editn. Page 481 & 482. Pubd. Aprl. 10 1793.125 x 150 225 x 175mm. Etching in sepia ink with aquatint frame, etched portion 70 x 90mm. Copied from part of a Hollar etching (71 x 92mm) illustrating John Vicars's A Sight of the Transactions of these latter yeares (1646, no 4). The long inscription etched around the Cross in the original is here added to the caption in lm. P 349. (Hind 31)


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