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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...stands upon and at the back of the altar, and which 1 Testamenta Eboracensia, II, p. 283. 3 Churchwardens' Accounts of St. Michael, Cornhill (privately printed by Mr. Alfred J. Waterlow). 3 Westminster Inventory; London Archaeological Transactions, vol. IV. 4 Surrey Church Inventories; edited by J. R. Daniel-Tyssen, Esq., p. 36. the Arches Court, in modern times, declared to be admissible, provided that it was not affixed to the mensa so as to prevent the fair linen cloth from covering the table; and probably it was this which is referred to in the accounts of the churchwardens of St. Lawrence, Reading, who in 1515 1 paid to a suffragan for hallowing of the high awt5, Seynt John's awt, & a sup' altre vjs. viijd. In a Nominale of the fifteenth century, it is explained as "a hye awtyr: "2 evidently confusing it with the superior or high altar of the church. This shelf was covered with a super-frontal to correspond with the frontal of the altar itself; as, for example, at St. Maryat-Hill. "A frontell for the schelffe standyng on the altar of blue sarsenet with brydds (birds) of golde."3 In Italy it is called the predella, but the same term is quite as often used to refer to the row of small scenes which usually occupied a foot or so of painted panelling at the foot of the great altar-painting, in the nature of a reredos, so customary there from the fifteenth century. ORNAMENTS. It is necessary to remark expressly, that the period of introduction or use of particular items of altar ornaments or furniture can only be stated generally, for such things were not introduced or used pursuant to canons of any general Council of the church, and rarely even of any provincial synod; and, therefore, it by no means follows that...

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