1689.] SS. Peter and Paul, EYE, Suffolk.

"Here also lyeth the body of William Heydon Esq; 2d son to St John Heydon, and last male of that family who departed the 17 day of Septemb. ano Dni 1689. Requiescat in pace. Amen."-Ibid. vol. v. p. 164. 1697.] S. Andrew, THELTON. "Hic jacet corpus Thomæ Havers qui obiit Febr. 1mo, a° Doм. 1697. Ætat. suæ 66. Requiescat in pace."-Blomefield's Norfolk.

1705.] S. betha Englefeild

fine conclusit ...

COSSESLY, Norfolk. "Hic jacet Dña Eliza

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vitam Christianam transactam Christiano Martii die 16. anno Dni 1705. ætatis suæ 70. Requiescat in pace."-Monumenta Anglicana, vol. v. p. 212.

1782.] SS. Peter and Paul, ALGARKIRKE, Lincolnshire. "Mary Michael, spinster, who died Nov. 19, 1782, aged 69. FILI DEI miserere mei."-Churches of Lincolnshire, Holland Division.

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Defended by the Cambridge Camden Society.

"We may as well say at once, fortified by the examples of Bishop Barrow, Bishop Cosin, and Herbert Thorndike, and the authorities of Bishop Buckeridge, Bishop Andrewes, Archbishop Laud, Bishop Forbes, Bishop Overall, Archbishop Usher, Bishop Taylor, and Bishop Archibald Campbell, that no epitaph is Catholick, unless it contain (with one single exception) a distinct prayer for mercy."-The Ecclesiologist, vol. I. p. 171.

A Proclamation concerning the irreverent Talkers of the Sacrament of the Altar.

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Dec. 27, 1547.] "Whereas the king's highness hath of late, with the assent and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in the parliament held the 4th day of November, in the first year of his most gracious reign, made a good and godly act and statute against those who do contemn, despise, or with unseemly and ungodly words deprave and revile the holy Sacrament of the Body and Blood of our LORD, commonly called the Sacrament of the altar;' and the said statute hath most prudently declared, by all the words and terms in which Scripture speaketh of it, what is

undoubtedly to be accepted, believed, taken, and spoken by and of the said Sacrament: yet this notwithstanding his majesty is advertised, that some of his subjects, not contented with such words and terms as Scripture doth declare thereof, nor with that doctrine which the HOLY GHOST by the Evangelists and S. Paul hath taught us, do not cease to move contentious and superfluous questions of the said holy Sacrament and Supper of the LORD, entering rashly into the discussing of the high mystery thereof, and go about in their sermons or talk arrogantly to define the manner, nature, fashion, ways, possibility or impossibility of those matters; which neither make to edification, nor GOD hath by His holy Word opened.

"Which persons, not contented reverently and with obedient faith to accept that the said Sacrament, according to the saying of S. Paul, the bread is the communion,' or partaking of the Body of the LORD; the wine' likewise the partaking of the Blood of CHRIST' by the words instituted and taught of CHRIST; and that the Body and Blood of JESU CHRIST is there; which is our comfort, thanksgiving, love-token of CHRIST's love towards us, and of ours as His members within ourselves, search and strive unreverently whether the Body and Blood aforesaid is there really or figuratively, locally or circumscriptly, and having quantity and greatness, or but substantially and by substance only, or else but in a figure and manner of speaking; whether His blessed Body be there, head, legs, arms, toes and nails, or any other ways, shape and manner, naked or clothed; whether He is broken or chewed, or He is always whole; whether the bread there remaineth as we see, or how it departeth; whether the Flesh be there alone, and the Blood, or part, or each in other, or in the one both, in the other but only Blood; and what Blood; that only which did flow out of the side, or that which remained with other such irreverent, superfluous, and curious questions, which, how and what, and by what means, and in what form, may bring into them, which of human and corrupt curiosity hath desire to search out such mysteries as lieth hid in the infinite and bottomless depth of the wisdom and glory of GOD, and to the which our human imbecility cannot attain: and therefore ofttimes turneth the same to their own and others' destruction by contention and arrogant rashness, which simple and christian affection reverently receiving and obediently believing without further search, taketh and useth to most great comfort and profit.

"For reformation whereof, and to the intent that further contention, tumult, and question might not arise amongst the king's subjects, the king's highness, by the advice of the lord-protector, and other his majesty's council, straitly willeth and commandeth, that no manner of person from henceforth do in any wise contentiously and openly argue, dispute, reason, preach or teach, affirming any more terms of the said blessed Sacrament than be expressly taught in the holy scripture, and mentioned in the aforesaid act; nor deny none which be therein contained and mentioned, until such time as the king's majesty, by the advice of his highness's council and the clergy of this realm, shall define, declare, and set forth an open doctrine thereof, and what terms and words may justly be spoken thereby, other than be expressly in the scripture contained in the act before rehearsed.

"In the meanwhile the king's highness' pleasure is, by the advice aforesaid, that every his loving subjects shall devoutly and reverently affirm and take that holy bread to be CHRIST'S Body, and that cup to be the cup of His holy Blood, according to the purport and effect of the holy scripture contained in the act before expressed, and accommodate themselves rather to take the same Sacrament worthily than rashly to enter into the discussing of the high mystery thereof.

"Yet the king's highness mindeth not hereby to let or stop the ignorant and willing to learn, reverently or privately to demand of those whom he thinketh knoweth more, the further instruction and teaching in the said blessed Sacrament; so that the same be not done with contention, nor in open audience, with a company gathered together about them, nor with tumult: nor doth prohibit any man hereby likewise so quietly, devoutly, and reverently to teach or instruct the weak and unlearned according to the more talent and learning given to him of GOD. But only that all contention, strife, and tumult, and irreverentness might be avoided, and in open audience and preaching nothing taught but which may have the holy scripture for warrant.

"Upon pain that whosoever shall openly with contention or tumult, and in a company gathered together, either in churches, alehouses, markets, or elsewhere, contrary to the form and effect of this proclamation, defend and maintain, or irreverently and contentiously demand of any man, any of the questions before rehearsed, either on the one part or of the other, or any such like, or do other

wise revile, contemn or despise the said Sacrament by calling it an idol, or other such vile name, shall incur the king's high indignation, and suffer imprisonment, or to be otherwise grievously punished at his majesty's will and pleasure.

"Giving further in authority to all justices of the peace within the shires where they dwell, to apprehend and take all such as contentiously and tumultuously, with companies or routs assembled about them, do dispute, argue or reason, or stiffly maintain, or openly preach and define the questions before rehearsed, or any of them, or such like, either on the one part or the other, and to commit the same to prison until such time as the king's majesty's pleasure herein be known: and that they immediately do certify the name or names of the party so offending, and of them who were there at the same time present, making the rout or assembly to the king's highness's council: willing and commanding the said justices with all diligence to execute the premises according to the purport, effect, and true meaning of the same, and their most bounden duties, as they tender his highness's will and pleasure, and will answer to the contrary upon their peril."-Cardwell's Documentary Annals, vol. 1. pp. 34-38.

Miscellaneous.

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"Popish Ceremonies" observed by the Clergy at the Restoration.

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1660.] Upon these and other reasons it was, that many ceremonies introduced into the mass-books and other popish breviaries, such as ducking and bowing to the East, to the altar, the standing up at Gloria PATRI, or Glory be to the FATHER,' &c. at the reading of the Gospels for the day; the wearing of robes, copes, lawn sleeves, or other vestments, (save only a rochet to be worn by an archbishop or bishop, and surplice only by priests and deacons), the wearing of sandals or slippers when men go into churches or chapels; the turning Communion-tables and setting them altarwise (at the east end of the chancel, or setting up altars of stone in that place, whether the congregation can hear or not);

women's wearing veils, and offering of chrisomes at churchings, and that at the high altar; the reading of the lessons at one place, and the second service at the altar, which second service was never appointed by the Common Prayer-Book to be used but only at the celebration of the LORD's Supper; the setting up of tapers of wax, candlesticks, basins and ewers, upon the high altar, and ducking to them every time a man comes into the church or goes out, or stirs while he is in it; (whereas cups, pots, and basins for alms, were never since 5 Edw. VI. to be set there, but at the Communion, nor then to be bowed unto, though the bread and wine were on the Table); the wearing of hoods of degrees, and many other such like devices; all which were laid aside in 5, 6 Edw. VI., as appears by the rubricks, and the act of uniformity in 1 Eliz. 2 compared together, which allows nothing but what was in the Book of 5, 6 Edw. VI., save only the alterations mentioned in the said Act, as hath been before shewed.... But so great is the itch of man's corrupt nature after human inventions in divine worship, and so natural are popish gew-gaws and outward pompous toys that please the senses, that many of these (who had been laid aside, as above said in 5, 6 Edw. VI.) and that, at the conference at Hampton-court, it was desired that those ceremonies and rites of the cross in baptism, kneeling at the Communion, the surplice, &c., might be put away; yet such was the violence of the prevailing party at that time, that, having obtained license under the great seal, they in Convocation, an. 1603, recalled sundry of those rejected ceremonies again, and enjoined all students in colleges to wear surplices in time of divine service, Can. xvii., copes by him that ministereth the sacrament, epistolers and gospellers, according to 7 Eliz. (there being no such statute nor Parliament in 7 Eliz.), and sundry other things, under colour whereof, by degrees, most of those things before cast out, viz. bowing to the East, and to the altar, with the rest before named, were introduced; and now devoutly (or rather superstitiously) observed, without any show or colour of warrant, but ancient custom, which being duly examined, will appear to all to be first used in the popish churches, as too palpably appeareth by the Preface touching ceremonies before alleged.

"Yea, those very men who are so much for these, and not only urge the 18th Canon of 1603, but the Queen's Injunctions for bowing at the Name of JESUS, which no Common Prayer-Book