5289. incepta letania: fratres accedant ad formas sicut in xij. Harl. MS. leccionibus. Ad singula sanctorum nomina chorus inclinet. cantores ad nullum. Cum dixerint | Omnes sancti. exeant fo. 186. omnes qui ad missam sint seruituri. cum dixerint. Accendite. accendantur luminaria. Accendite. Accendite. tribus uicibus alta uoce pronunciata intret episcopus cum ministris suis sollempniter indutis et clericis suis in capis uel eo absente sacerdos cum ministris suis. et incipiat cantor festiue Kyrieleison post Kyrieleison incipiatur Gloria in excelsis deo. incensetur altare et pulsentur omnia signa ad Kyrieleison et Gloria in excelsis et Alleluia stet totus conuentus Sed secundum consuetudinem dunelm. ecclesie in omni fo. 428. feria va uacante per annum exceptis aduentu, lxxa et xla celebratur de sancto cuthberto officium Statuit ei. [feria vi de cruce sabbato de sancta maria] WORKS MOST FREQUENTLY QUOTED IN THE FOLLOWING NOTES. TITLE. QUOTED AS Rolls. ... Account Rolls of Durham Abbey. Surtees Soc. Durham, ... 1898-1901 Billings, R. W. Architectural Illustrations and Description of the Cathedral Church at Durham. London, 1843 ... ... Billings. Statutes of ... Bradshaw, Henry, and Wordsworth, Chr. Hutchinson. History, etc., of Durham. ... ... ... Newcastle, ... 1785-94 Lanfranc. Decreta pro ordine S. Benedicti, printed in Reyner, 211-254; in Wilkins, I, 328-361 ex MS. ; Dunelm. B. iv. 24, fo. 47; and in Migne, P.L. 150, 443 ff. (c. A.D. 1220) Legg, J. Wickham, and Hope, W. H. St. John. Inventories of Christ Church, Canterbury. Westminster, Raine, James, M.A. A Brief Account of Durham Raine, James, M. A. Saint Cuthbert. Durham, 1828 Rock, Daniel, D.D. Church of our Fathers. Lond., B. and W. Carter. Greenwell. Hutchinson. Lanfranc. L. and H. Pugin. Raine, Br. Acc. Reyner. Rock. Scr. Tres. Wilkins, D. Lond., 1737 Wilkins. Wordsworth, Chr. Notes on Medieval Services. Lond., 1898 Wordsw. Written 1593]. So also MS. H. 44, and see below, ch. xv, p. 29; also App. VIII, p. 161. The 9 altars]. The eastern transept of Durham Cathedral has received this name from the nine altars that originally stood in it. There is a similar eastern addition at Fountains Abbey, of somewhat earlier date, called Novem altaria in the Chronicles of the Abbey, but unaccountably termed "The Lady Chapel" in the earlier editions of Walbran's Guide. Each of the nine altars at Durham, save that of St. Michael, had a dedication in honour of two saints, as stated in the text. In connexion with the building, see App. VI, particularly Nos. I, II, p. 148. Five of the altars were dedicated 16 Kal. Jul. (June 16), 1253, No. VIII, p. 151. front or highest part). The eastern wall of the "Nine Altars," on the internal face of which may still be seen the string-course rising from the bases of the vaulting-shafts to the tops of the altars.-Billings, Pl. xvii, xx, lxiv, lxvii. The expression "in fronte" is used in the same way as it is here, in Indulgences, Nos. vIII, XVIII, XXXI, App. VI, pp. 151, 153, 154. the altar of St John Baptist & St Margarett]. A missal that belonged to this altar still exists (MS. Harl. 5289; see App. XI, p. 172). In it is an inventory of the goods belonging to the altar, which may give an idea as to what the others had. See Appendix X, p. 171. This altar and that of St. Andrew and St. Mary Magdalene were dedicated 7 Kal. Jan. (St. Stephen's Day), 1274; see Indulgence No. xxxi, App. VI, p. 154. an Ambry set]. The expression points to a wooden construction; there is no recess in the wall at this point, but the stone bench has been cut away. For other wooden almeries not enclosed in walls, see chapters II, XVII, XXII, Xxxix, xl. There must have been many such almeries in all churches, and some few have remained, as those at Selby, which are on the north side of the high altar. These have vertical sliding doors; there is also a long almery, with a hinged door, for the abbot's crosier or for the processional cross. In the small vestry behind Bishop Fox's altar in his chapel at Winchester are small almeries or cupboards, the fronts of which are ornamented with the linen pattern. Behind the high altar of the same church is the base of a long, narrow cupboard entered by a door at either end. It is of stone, 16 ft. 9 ins. long, and 1 ft. 10 ins. deep, and was evidently a relic-cupboard with grates in front like one in the north transept at Gloucester. On the relic-cupboard formerly at Canterbury, see L. and H., 37, 39, 82. On the almeries formerly in the Galilee, see below. Singing-breads]. The wafer-bread used in the celebration of mass, which was commonly sung, though often said. This bread was made in thin, coin-like, round cakes like what are now used, with some sacred symbol impressed upon each one. They were carefully dried, rather than baked, between the "obley-irons," which were irons that closed ... a faire marble stone]. Neither this tombstone nor that of Bishop Beck now exists. "When the church was flagged after an uniform plan, within the memory of persons still alive, many monumental slabs, worthy of preservation, were destroyed, and others were injudiciously removed from their places into the spaces between the pillars of the nave and other retired corners which they now occupy."-Raine, Br. Acc., 12. the wall beinge broken]. The writer is here following what appears to have been a common opinion in his day, but the doorway referred to, now walled up, is, like the one at the opposite end, evidently a part of the original design. allye]. The walk immediately west of the eight wainscot partitions that divided this entire transept into nine eastern chapels. It turned round eastward at either end, forming "the north alley" and "the south alley" of the Nine Altars. shrines]. Here we are probably to understand canopies. ouer head]. These canopies were probably flat at the top, with some sort of cresting, and coved or vaulted underneath, like that of Our Lady's Altar in the Galilee, described below, partition of wainscott). The floor has been renewed and raised, and there are no precise indications of the fixing of these partitions. At Fountains there were perpent walls with gabled copings; at some late period these were replaced by wooden screens extending westward to a long parclose.—Hope, Fountains, 27, 30. At Rievaulx the five eastern altars were divided by perpent walls of stone, continued westward with wood, to meet a great cross screen or parclose.Rievaulx Cartulary (Surt. Soc.), vol. 83, pp. cxi, 336. For similar arrangements at Abbey Dore and Lincoln, see Hope's note. pictured and guilted]. There are remains of colour about the stonework over where the altars stood. lockers or ambers]. Like the one mentioned above; note, p. 193. in the wall. There are three square recesses to the left of three of the altars. As the sides are not grooved, they probably had wooden linings in which shelves were fixed. For the corresponding provision at Fountains, see Hope, 30, 31. St Katherns window]. Mentioned in 1545 as "ye windoo in the Kateron wheyll."-Rolls, 727. This may have been originally wheel-shaped with radiating shafts, like others of the period, as, for example, that in the north transept of Beverley Minster, or that in the west front at Peterborough, a design which would keep in mind St. Katherine's Wheel. The glazing was done at a cost of £14, given by Tho. Pikeringe, rector of Hemingburgh, 1409-12.-Liber Vitæ, 115. The present stone-work (36 lights) was made by Wyatt in 1795, and the glazing is modern. 24 lights]. Either this is a mistake for thirty-six, or the present design is different from that which preceded it. The other window, in which the legend was represented, is described again below, p. 119. as shee was sett uppon the wheele, etc.]. See Legenda Aurea, Leg. CLXVII, according to which account she was afterwards beheaded with a sword, and angels carried her body to Mount Sinai. The once popular legend of St. Katherine is still contained in the Roman Breviary; it is given more fully in those of Sarum and York. cressetts of Earthen mettall]. Basins of earthen material standing in the iron frame. Stone is classed as "mettell" in ch. XVII. A similar use of the word metal has survived in the term road-metal. At p. 24 it is used of the material of the miraculous Rood of Scotland. Cressets were often made of stone, a square block having from four or five to sixteen (or more?) hemispherical cavities worked in it, each to contain grease and a wick. Such stone cressets were used in the Lantern, ch. XIII, and in the Dorter, ch. XLIII, and in many other places about the Abbey. See Rolls, Index under Cressets. Such have been described and figured by Mr. Lees in the Cumberland and Westmoreland Transactions, Vol. III, pp. 194-196; see also Arch. Association Journal, XXII, 105. There are cresset-stones in situ in the atrium of S. Ambrogio, Milan, at Lewannick in Cornwall, and one, not in situ, at Wool Church, Dorset (Cornhill Mag. Nov. 1890, p. 193). There is one in the York Museum, also a fine example with nine holes at Furness Abbey. One was found at Waverley in 1899, |