Some Fonts: Historical and Beautiful page 2

The Reformation came, but for some time the font was unaffected. Five years after the Dissolution the church of Walsoken (Norfolk) was presented with a "Seven Sacraments," a beautiful specimen. At Ellesmere (Salop) and Edlington (Lincoln) are Elizabethan fonts; there is a James I at Whixall (Salop), and a Charles I at Saham Toney (Norfolk) and Dorton (Bucks). Cromwellian troopers destroyed the bowl of Newark font; the Commonwealth forbade their use, and their general destruction began.

When the Restoration came the cry was ''new fonts for old," and a series of false Gothic followed fast. But the flattery of imitation lacked sincerity.