Squire, of S. Leonard's, in Shoreditch; and Finch, of Christchurch. The articles against which four and some others more, being for the most part of the same nature and effect, as, namely, railing in the Communion-table, adoration toward it, calling up the parishioners to the rail to receive the Sacrament, reading the second service at the table so placed, preaching in surplices and hoods, administering the Sacrament in copes, beautifying and adorning churches with painted glass, and others of the like condition; which either were to be held for crimes in the clergy generally, or else accounted none in them."-Cyprianus Anglicus, p. 471. [338] 1643-4.] "About the latter end of the same year I find also mentioned in the Journals of the House, an order for selling the copes, surplices, &c. in all cathedral, collegiate, and parish churches. And by another ordinance of May 9, 1644, to accomplish the blessed reformation so happily begun,' they enlarged the clause about removing of images and pictures, which before was confined to churches, chapels, or places belonging to them, to all open places whatsoever; and then proceeded to forbid the use of surplices, superstitious vestments, &c.; provided that no cross, crucifix, picture, &c. as before should continue upon any plate or other thing used about the worship of GOD': ordered the taking away of all organs, and in the close, commanded that all those copes, surplices, superstitious vestments, roods, fonts, and organs, be not only taken away, but utterly defaced."*-Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, p. 25. [339] 1644.] "What e'er the Popish hands have built, Our hammers shall undo; We'll break their pipes and burn their copes, And pull down churches too. We'll exercise within the groves, And teach beneath a tree; We'll make a pulpit of a cart, And hey! then up go we." Song in the Shepherd's Oracle, p. 11, 4to. 1644. * These quotations are sufficient to shew that copes were worn in parish churches; a fact expressly denied by a late writer. See How shall we Conform to the Liturgy? p. 295, 2nd edit.-EDD. [340] Copes resumed at the Restoration. * Temp. Charles II.] "Risum teneatis, amici? Come, hold your sides, and look demurely if you can (for your very guts and spleen), to see a grave dignitary of the Church, with tippet and satin cap, a gaudy cope and hood (before and behind), nodding his reverend head, and making reverences so humble, that his brisly chin even kisses the ground (no antick Frenchman or father Peter can outvie the compliment) in an humble address to the east, to the altar, and where there is either something or nothing more than in the belfry, and in the west......If you do not yet know my Ceremony-monger I'll tell you his name. His name is Legion, for never was the herd more numerous or more possessed, since the devil entered into the herd of swine."-The Ceremony Monger. Hickeringill's Works, vol. II. pp. 388, 389. [341] 1660.] "His cope, his hood, his surplice, his cringing worship, his altar with candles on it (most nonsensically unlighted too), his bag-pipes or organs, and in some places viols and violins, singingmen and singing-boys, &c., are all so very like popery, and all but the vestments illegal, that I protest, when I came in 1660 from beyond sea to Paul's and Whitehall, I could scarce think myself to be in England, but in Spain or Portugal again. I saw so little difference, but that their service was in Latin, and ours in English; but less intelligible and less edifying, for one half thereof, than Latin, by reason of the inarticulate boatus and braying, whilst all the people read half the Psalms, with a noise as confused as the rumbling of thunder......that any man in the world that had seen high mass beyond sea, must say that the contrivance of both was to keep people in ignorance, the mother of devotion.”—Ibid. vol. II. pp. 393, 394. [342] Ibid.] "He does not say the mass indeed in Latin: but his hood, his cope, his surplice, his rochet, his altar railed in, his candles, and cushions and book thereon, his bowing to it, his bowing, or rather nodding at the Name of JESUS, his organs, his violins, his singing *This irreverent jester seems to refer to a chasuble in the above allusion.-EDD. men, his singing-boys, with their alternate jabbering and mouthings (as unintelligible as Latin service), so very like popery, that I profess, when I came from beyond sea, about the year 1660 to Paul's and Whitehall, I almost thought at first blush that I was still in Spain or Portugal; only the candles on our altars, most nonsensically, stand unlighted, to signify, what? The darkness of our noddles, or to tempt the chandlers to turn down-right papists, as the more suitable religion for their trade; for ours mocks them with hopes only. He gapes, and stares to see the lucky minute when the candles should be lighted; but he is cheated, for they do not burn out in an age.”— Ibid. vol II. p. 405. [343] Albs worn at the Consecration of Bishops in Dublin by the Lord Primate. 1660.] "The Bishops elect in their albs."-View of the Prelatical Church of England, &c. p. 33. [344] Albs worn at the Enthronization of Bishop Walton in Chester Cathedral. 1661.] "As soon as he had put on his Episcopal robes, he hasted the performance of his devotions in the quire. When he entered the body of the church, the Dean (Dr. Henry Bridgman, brother to the Lord Chief-Justice Bridgman) and all the members of the cathedral, habited in their albs, received a blessing from his Lordship, sung the Te DEUM, and so compassing the quire in the manner of a procession, conveyed him to his chair."*—Bp. Kennet's Register, &c., vol. 1. p. 537, fol. 1728. [345] Copes &c. excepted against at the Savoy Conference. Ibid.] "Forasmuch as this rubrick [and here it is to be noted, &c.] seemeth to bring back the cope, alb, &c., and other vestments forbidden by the Common Prayer-book, 5 and 6 Edw. vI., and so our reasons alleged against ceremonies under our eighteenth general exception; we desire it to be wholly left out."-The Exceptions [of the Presbyterian Divines] against the Book of Common Prayer. Cardwell's History of Conferences, p. 314. We have met with the above extract since the publication of the note, antè p. 129.-EDD. [346] Copes worn at the Coronation of Charles E. Ibid. March 23rd.] "A great pleasure it was to see the Abbey raised in the middle, all covered with red, and a throne (that is a chair) and footstool on the top of it; and all the officers of all kinds, so much as the very fiddlers, in red vests. At last comes in the Deans and Prebends of Westminster, with the Bishops (many of them in cloth of gold copes), and after them the nobility all in their parliament robes, which was a most magnificent sight."*—Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S., vol. 1. p. 120, 4to. 1825. [347] Copes worn in Westminster Abbey at the Funeral of the 1670.] "At the entrance into the Abbey, the Dean and Prebends in their copes, and the quire in their surplices attended, and proceeded between the great banner, and the officers-of-arms that carried the trophies."-Sandford's Account of the Solemn Interment of George Duke of Albemarle, fol. 1760. [348] Copes &c. restored at Durham and Norwich Cathedrals. 1680, Sept. 14.] "Went to see the Abbey: viewed the exceedingly rich copes and robes: was troubled to see so much superstition remaining in Protestant churches; tapers, basins, and a richly embroidered IHS upon the high altar; the picture of GOD the FATHER, like an old man, the Son as a young man, richly embroidered upon their copes. LORD, open their eyes, that the substance of religion be not at length turned into shadows and ceremonies."-Ralph Thoresby's Diary, vol. 1. pp. 60, 61. [349] 1681.] "January 1. Afternoon returned to Durham, 2 die Dom. In the forenoon went to the Minster; was somewhat amazed at their ornaments, tapers, rich embroidered copes, vestments, &c. Dr. Brevin, a native of France, discoursed on the birth of CHRIST."-Ibid. 75. vol. I. p. *The Archbishop of Canterbury was "vested in a rich ancient cope."-Kennet's Register, p. 416.-EDD. [350] Temp. Charles II.] "The present organ was set up by Dean Crofts and the Chapter,......the old organ......being altogether demolished by the rebels, as were the five or six copes belonging to the church, which, though they looked somewhat old, were richly embroidered. The present cope was given at the Restoration, by Philip Harbord, Esq., then High Sheriff of Norfolk."-Blomefield's Topographical History of Norfolk, vol. IV. p. 6. [351] Copes worn at the Coronation of James E.* 1685, April 23rd.] "The Dean and Prebendaries of Westminster.......brought the regalia in solemn procession into the hall, being habited in white surplices and rich copes, and preceded by the Gentlemen of the King's Chapel and Choir of Westminster.". Sandford's Historical Account of the Coronation of James II. Gentleman's Magazine, vol. XXXI. p. 349. [352] Copes worn at the Coronation of George E.t 1714, Oct. 20th.] "The twelve Prebendaries of Westminster in their surplices and rich copes, according to their seniority, four abreast, the youngest first. The Lord Bishop of Rochester, as Dean of Westminster, in a surplice, and a rich cope of purple velvet, embroidered with gold and silver."-The manner of the grand Proceeding, &c. Account of the Ceremonies used at the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of England, p. 33, 4to. 1761. [353] Copes worn in Westminster Abbey at the Funeral of the Duke of Buckingham. 1721.] "The late Duke of Buckingham......was on Saturday night interred in Westminster Abbey......In the abbey they [the Funeral Procession] were received by the Dean and Chapter in their copes, the whole choir in their surplices singing before the * The Dean and Prebendaries of Westminster wore rich copes at the Coronation of Queen Anne in 1702.-EDD. The same or similar vestments were worn in 1727, at the Coronation of George II. and Queen Caroline.-EDD. |