THE POPE Burnt to Ashes: OR Defiance to ROME.  
Being a Perfect Account how the Exact Image of his Holiness was solemnly carried in Procession through the greatest part of the City of LONDON.  
And at last Exposed to the Flames of a stately Bonfire near the Temple-Gate in Fleet-street, on Friday the 17th of Novemb. 1676. With loud Acclamations of several Thousands of Spectators.  
There being a Terse of Claret, a Barrel of Ale, and a Barrel of Beer there distributed amongst the Beholders, which was far better excepted than the Blood of the Martyrs.  
London, Printed for B. H. 1676.   

The new Procession and Burning of the POPE, &c.  
WHEN God with an out-stretched Arm, and long series of Miracles, had brought his People Israel out of their temporal Slavery in Egypt, he commanded them to tell it to their Children, and affect their off-spring with memorials of that Deliverance. The same God having no less wonderfully freed this Nation from the Spiritual Bondage, and worse then Egyptian Darkness of Popery, it may not be unfit for us to Reflect often with Gratitude upon that Blessing, which though long since bestowed, yet we to this day enjoying the happy Fruits in the Light and Purity of the Gospel, are doubtless obliged to be thankful for the same, and Imprint on out Children and Posterity, as well a due sense of the greatness of that Mercy, as a just detestation of the Popal Errors, Idolatries, Cruelties, and Usurpations.  
As for the Solid part of the controversy, certainly never was Cause so shamefully baffled or more deservedly Tryumph'd over, than Popery has been, by the unanswerable Labours of Sundry of our Learned Divines, of whom, some are still Living Glories of our Church; nor can we reflect on the absurdities of Roman Doctrines without remembering the Cruelty of those Practices whereby they endeavoured to enforce them; and therefore our people have often given public Testimonies of their Abhorrency against such a bloody Faction, and contempt of all their vain plots and devices, to bring their exploded trumperies again into request, and Act over once more the Marian Tragedies, but scarce have we known a more signal Emblem on this occasion, then what we now beholded; which though some Jesuited supercilious critics may censure as a light and vain piece of papageantry, yet it sufficiently discovers the Genius of the multitude, yet untainted, and retaining a settled Aversion to the old ridiculous superstitions; expressed as follows,  
On friday the 17th of this instant November, being the Birth-day of that Renowned Maiden Queen Eliz. It being customary in honour to her deserving memory, to make Bonfires in the Evening; some Gentlemen were pleased to bring forth into the open street, in Broad-street, a very magnificent Effigies of a Pope, properly habited in all his pontificalibus, so curiously done, that it was judged by most to have cost a considerable Sum for materials and workmanship. The body was made of Past-bord covered over with painted Callicue, and set off with all necessary Lustre, his Triple Crown very large and fair, being all guilded over with fine Gold; under his feet was a Bible trampled on, and a Purse close hugged under his Lest Arm; he was placed sitting in a Chair of State, with his Crosier, Keys, Bulls, Pardons, Indulgences, Agnus Dei, and other Implements about him, and to represent him completely as the Mystical Whore, they had put him on Artificial Locks, finely curled and powdered, with a vast Tower or Fruzz on his Forehead, but just behind him on his Right shoulder was a Devil leaning towards him, and sometimes whispering with his Holiness.  
And thus being bourn up by men underneath unseen, as Pageants are carried, he was conveyed into cornhill, where neat Finch Lane end, there being a great Bonfire, they stopped for some time, the younger Spectators divertising themselves with joques, merriment, and exclamations.  
From thence they proceeded, as in a Solemn procession, by the Exchange, through Cheapside and Pauls Church-yard, into Fleet-street, where at the Temple Gate was a Bon-fire of above a Load of Wood ready to entertain him; his Holiness approaching the Flames, did several times start and much implore his Associate-Devil to preserve him, but in vain, for after some time of sport, they cast Pope, Devil, Chair and all into the midst of the Fire, which was followed by a shout for half an hour, so loud, as under the favour of a Metaphor, one might say, it might be heard to Rome itself; and a Terse of Claret, a Barrel of Beer, and a Barrel of Ale, given by some Persons of quality on this occasion, was distributed amongst the crowd.  
Let not the old Gentleman of Italy complain for this Irreverence to his Image, he may remember his Ancestors jested more severely with us heretofore; Burning many of our Fore-Fathers, not in effigy, but really, and with exquisite Torments, and though those barbarous usages are too much forgot by some, and excused and minced by others, who would fain represent Popery as a very Innocent toothless thing, yet we know full well, that a Tiger is still a Tiger though in a Cage, and that a jesuit may seem a Saint in the Streets, but trace him to his Seminary, he is a Fox, and in the Inquisition a lion Rampant, since we are therefore freed from the Roman yoke, let us pray we may never Relapse into that slavery, and lick up those abominations which our Ancestors with so much Indignation spit out; let us not abandon those Glorious privileges which they purchased at the price of their Lives, nor turn renegadoes to those truths which they with a true Christian Generosity Sealed with their Blood. Let us not heap upon ourselves the Infamy of Apostates in the very same things whereby they won the Glory of Martyrs. In a word,— let Popery( that painted Religion) perish with this Picture-Pope, and not so much as its Ghost remain to Haunt and Disturb us, nor our Posterity.  
FINIS.