animam 5o Decem' 1607. Non moriar sed vivam, et narrabo opera DOMINI.'"-Ecclesiologist, vol. VI. p. 73.

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General conformity to the order for wearing Copes in Cathedrals, temp. James E.

1607.] "As for the cope appointed by the 24th Canon, by the principal Minister to be worn, when he ministers the Communion in collegiate and cathedral churches, we need not here trouble ourselves at all, for there is none that I know or hear of in such places that refuse therein to conform themselves."A Brotherly Persuasion to Unity, &c., by Thomas Sparke, D.D., p. 18, 4to. 1607.

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Copes of Cloth-of-gold and other rich materials in use, temp. Charles I.

1640.] "I suppose you would be loath to have your rich clothof-gold copes, and the like, to be turned into coarse frieze."—A Reply to a Relation of the Conference, &c. p. 100.

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Ibid.] "How would too few [ceremonies] leave your service naked? Surely many ways, now when I better consider it. Without the surplice and hood, the minister naked; without rich ornaments and a crucifix, the altar naked; without a sign of the cross, baptism is naked; without kneeling before the altar at the Communion, the sacrament naked; without a devout cringe when JESUS is named, JESUS is naked; without looking towards the East when you pray, prayer naked; without goodly images, the walls naked; without the rich copes, the Epistle and Gospel naked; without a fair pair of organs and chanting to it, the whole service naked. But what if the whole service be thus naked? GOD neither requires nor respects any such pomp in His service."-Ibid. p. 102.

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Ibid.] "As to that inscription which the Apostle found upon that altar at Athens, To the Unknown God', may it not be written as well upon your whole service, which you dedicate to the unknown God; which being patched up like a fool's gay coat of so many divers coloured shreds, wherein your service being

dressed up, you think it is wondrous pleasing to GOD: doth not all this bewray that you do all this service to a God whom you know not, as whom your fancy frameth to be some carnal man, whose senses are delighted with such service; as his ears with organs, his eyes with goodly images, curious wrought copes, rich palls, fair gilded plate; his smell with sweet incense, his Majesty with sitting upon your stately high altar as upon his throne, and to keep his residence in your goodly cathedral as in his Royal Court?"-A Reply to a Relation of the Conference, &c. p. 104.

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Ibid.] "The main, the all, and sum of all your religion is your altar. On this your goddess, all your other devotions and ceremonies, as so many handmaids, give their devout attendance. Your face prayeth towards your altar; your body boweth towards your altar; your second solemn service, (as the Secundo Mensa) for your daintier cates, must be served upon your altar, which the main body of the Church must not taste of; your third service (which is instead of the preacher's concluding prayer and blessing after his half-hour's sermon) must be served by your priest at your altar, when with his blessing he dismisses the people with an Ite Missa est; and all the while of your second and third service, your serving men in their liveries, or rich copes, stand and give their attendance about your altar; your crucifixes and images, like the cherubims, have their aspect and respect upon your altar; all must come and offer at your altar, while for joy your organs merrily play. Thus, as the Romish altar-service (as Bellarmine tells us) is the main substance of all their religion, just so is yours."-Ibid. pp. 343, 344.

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Ibid.] "One and the same [with the Church of Rome] in your episcopal robes and vestments, both rare and rich, as purple and scarlet, and fine linen, as it were the livery whereby you are known to be of one and the same house or family with that woman (Rev. xvii.), alias, the great whore of Babylon, with whom you claim sisterhood; so also in your mitres, your rochets, palls, semiters [chimeres ?], square caps, tippets, and so cap-à-pied. One and the same in your Liturgy, Service or Mattins, or Servicebook, which even your Jesuit confessed to be catholick; and so

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one and the same in all your service, dressing and garb, as rich copes, palls, and other altar-ornaments, goodly gilt plate, fair crucifixes over them, and devout adoration unto them, and praying toward the East, where your altar and crucifix standeth, goodly gay images, and loud sounding organs, and sweet chanting choristers and chanters, deans and subdeans, and prebends, epistlers and gospellers, singing-men and vergers, and a huge stately pomp and equipage, more than I can tell."—Ibid. p. 66.

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Copes, &c. in York Cathedral.

1634.] "The sumptuous ornaments and vestments belonging to this cathedral are carefully kept in the vestry aforesaid,-viz. the gorgeous canopy, the rich Communion Table-cloths, the copes of embroidered velvet, cloth-of-gold, and silver and tissue, of great worth and value. There the verger shewed us S. Peter's chair (which we made bold to rest in), wherein all the archbishops are installed; two double-gilt coronets, the tops with globes and crosses to set on either side of his grace, upon his said instalment, when he takes his oath these are called his dignities. In this consecrated place is a dainty, sweet, clear well, of which we tasted for the saint's sake."-A Topographical Excursion in the year 1634. Graphick and Historical Illustrator, p. 94, 4to. 1834.

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Copes, Vestments, &c., in Durham Cathedral.

Ibid.] "The vestry, and therein we saw divers fair copes of several rich works of crimson satin embroidered with embossed work of silver, beset all over with cherubims curiously wrought to life. A black cope wrought with gold, with divers images in colours. A high altar-cloth of crimson velvet to cover the Table; another of purple velvet to hang above; and a third of crimson and purple to lay beneath, and four other rich copes and vestments. And although they cannot shew the like royal gift of plate as we viewed at York, yet they glory in that rich gift they presented to his majesty in his progress, the richest of all their ancient copes, which his majesty graciously accepted, and esteemed at an high value."A Topographical Excursion, &c. Ibid. p. 127.

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Copes in Lichfield Cathedral.

1634.] "Rich copes of cloth-of-tissue, a fair Communion-cloth of cloth-of-gold for the high altar."-A Topographical Excursion, &c. Ibid. p. 208.

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Copes in Winchester Cathedral.

1636.] "In this cathedral these injunctions were not only obeyed, copes provided, an altar with all popish furniture erected, bowed to, and second service read thereat, but likewise a large naked crucifix set over it, to the great scandal of many."-Canterbury's Doom, p. 80.

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The Dean of the Chapel-Royal of Polyrood required by Charles the Martyr to Preach in his Surplice.

1633.] "That the Dean of our Chapel that now is, and so successively, come duly thither to prayers upon Sundays, and such holy-days as that [the English] Church observes, in his whites, and preach so, whenever he preacheth there. And that he be not absent from thence, but upon necessary occasion of his diocese, or otherwise, according to the course of his preferment."-Instructions of Charles I. to be observed in the Chapel-Royal of Holyrood. Hidden Works of Darkness brought to Publick Light, &c. by William Prynne, p. 149, folio, 1645.

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Preaching in the Surplice required by Bishop Tren.

1636.] "He, the more to alienate the people's hearts from hearing of sermons, in the said year 1636, commanded and enjoined all ministers to preach constantly in their hood and surplice.........And the parishioners of Knatshall wanting a surplice, he did by his officers, in the year 1637, enjoin the churchwardens there, that no prayers should be read in that church till they had got a surplice, which they not getting for the space of two LORD's days after, had no prayers during that time there."-Articles of Impeachment, &c. p. 4.

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Ebid. required by Bishop Bridgman.

1641.]" To pass by the other prelates of this see [Chester], I shall give you only a touch of John Bridgman, the present Bishop of it.........To comply with the times, he erected divers

stone altars in his diocese, and one in the cathedral at Chester, used in times of popery, which he caused to be digged up out of the ground where it was formerly buried......... He ordered all the Ministers in Chester, not only to read prayers, but likewise to preach in their hoods and surplices."-The Second Part of the Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy both to Regal Monarchy and Civil Unity, &c., by William Prynne, pp. 290, 291. 4to. 1641.

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Consecration of Vestments, &c. by Bishop Goodman. 1641.] "In which diocese [Gloucester], proceeding in his former courses, he [Godfry Goodman] turned Communion Tables, railed them altar-wise, set up an altar or two in his own private chapel, with tapers on them (one of which altars, many say, he dedicated to the Virgin Mary); besides he set up divers crucifixes and images in the cathedral at Gloucester and elsewhere; and after the popish manner consecrated divers altar-cloths, pulpit-cloths, with other vestments for the cathedral, whereon crucifixes were embroidered to the great scandal of the people. And as if this were not sufficient to proclaim his popery to the world, he hath bestowed much cost in repairing the high cross at Windsor, where he was a prebend: on one side whereof there was a large statue of CHRIST in colours (after the popish garbs in foreign parts) hanging on the cross, with this Latin inscription over it, JESUS Nazarenus Rex Judæorum, in great gilded letters; on the other side, the picture of CHRIST rising out of the sepulchre, with His body half in and half out of it. And to manifest that he is not ashamed of this scandalous work, it is thereupon engraven, that this was done at the cost of Godfry, Bishop of Gloucester, one of the prebends there."-Ibid. pp. 316, 317.

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A Profane Joke against Preaching in the Surplice, temp.

Charles I.

1640.] "Some ceremonies may be tolerable in winter, which are not so fit for summer: as for your priest to administer and preach in his surplice and hood in winter time, is more tolerable, yea and perhaps more useful too, as keeping both his corps and cold sermon, that hath never a soul nor any heat of zeal in it, warm from freezing; but in summer time, to administer and preach