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The Churri ́s mmard farth in the Trinity: and once outside, 7. Bitty tud one Bamism. The chorus sing Fundamenta 03: and ruû the Priests are ascending the turrets. Jarot bebeid & indder, etc., and the Psalm DEUS noster

Then the Bishoy entereth the church: and sprinkleth mats or tu pavement in the form of a Cross: the chorus smenų Benediene, omnia opera.

The Dishy-Lit Ly you hearts.
We lift, etc.

The Biston-Let us give thanks, etc.
1: is meg, etc.

Them the Bishor goech to the Altar, and poureth the *nainās” (“The rater at its base.

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Then he biesseth the Atar stone: the Altar clothes, the sazeruota, restments, the Corporal, the Paten, the Chalice, The Tharin

Flere foliowerk the Mass of Dedication.
The Post Communion ended, the Bishop saith:

Incline, O LORD, Thine ears unto me, and hear me: Look down, Ò CHRIST, from Heaven, on Thy Flock and Thy Sheep: stretch Thine Hand over them: bless their bodies and their souls: that in the Communion of the Saints they may receive celestial benediction, light angelical, the Hour GHOST the Paraclete. Amen.

They who be regenerate of water and the Holy Ghost, who be redeemed on earth by Thy Precious Blood, who have received Thy Sign on their foreheads, grant them to be Thine on the Day of Judgment. Amen.

And as Thou didst bless Patriarchs and Prophets and Apostles, Martyrs and Confessors, Virgins and Priests, so bless this flock, who are assembled to-day in Thy Name in this church. Amen.

And as by Thine Angel Thou didst free the three children from the burning fiery furnace, so free this flock from everlasting death and the power of the devil, and from earthly lusts, and from all manner of weaknesses. Amen.

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Spare their faults, remit their sins, and present them pure and undefiled in the day of judgment: as Thou didst receive Enoch and Elias into the Kingdom of Heaven. Amen.

GOD Almighty bless and keep you, and make this House to shine with the glory of His Presence, and open the eyes of His Pity upon it day and night. Amen.

And grant of His Mercy, that all, who have assembled together at this Dedication, by the intercession of Blessed N., and all other Saints, whose relics rest here, may obtain the Remission of their sins. Amen.

That ye may be made a holy temple in the SPIRIT, where the HOLY Trinity may ever deign to dwell; and after this short life ye may attain to everlasting felicity. Amen.

Which He grant, Who liveth and reigneth, world without end. Amen.

CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS.

Page 7, l. 23. It shews how little Durandus can rightly be charged with fancifulness, when we find him classing among ceremonial precepts, rites for which the Rabbis, and many modern expositors, have given a symbolical reason. For is, read are.

9, l. 3.

9, l.

4.

An example very probably suggested to the Author by one of those Jesse Windows, of which even now we have many remains.

13, l. 4. For mere read more.

19, n.1.9. For Capella, read Capella.

22.

The reference in this page (21) ought to have been placed on p. 24.

29, l. 6. The lattice work of the windows.' Wrongly trans-
lated in Lewis, the screens before the windows.'
30, 7. 18. This passage proves, that in the time and country of
Durandus, seats or chairs except in the Choir were
unknown. Though in England Early English, or early
Decorated open-seats do occur, as in Clapton-in-
Gordan, Somersetshire, they are very rare, and take
up much less of the church than is the case in later
examples. See Hist. of Pues, 3rd Ed. pp. 19, 20, 79.
See Ecclesiologist. Vol. 1, p. 77.

31, l. 3.

43, l. 17.

47, 7. 11.

47, l. 21.

53, l. 20.

For Tables, read Table.

The reader is aware, that the words, in medio, of the
early Christian Altars, gave rise to the warmest disputes
between the Puritans and the Catholicks of the 17th
century. The Puritans insisted that they meant in the
body of the Church: the Catholicks generally, and
more particularly that most able defender of Altars,
Dr. Laurence, insisted that when the Fathers spoke of
an Altar in medio, they only meant one so placed as to
be where all might see it. The words undoubtedly may
bear this meaning: yet perhaps it is better to under-
stand them, as they must be understood in this passage
of Durandus, of an Altar placed in the hord of the
segment of a circle formed by the Apse. See Ecclesiolo-
gist, Vol. ii. p. 13.

See Psalm (cxviii.) Confitemini. 27.
For others, read other.

57, n. 20. l. 18. This is a mistake. The fresco alluded to represents
a Priest repeating the Pater Noster, (which is written
in his open book), at the N. W. angle of an Altar. Upon

the Altar are two candlesticks and a ciborium: rising out of the latter is the figure of our Blessed LORD. There can be no doubt of the objectionable nature of such a representation.

Page 58, l. 1. For laying, read lying.

60, n. 31, l. 12. For duodeni, read duodenas.

66, n. 54. There is a valuable article on the nimbus by M. Didron from the Revue Gènèrale de l'architecture in the Literary Gazette for Dec. 1842. An example is there given of the square nimabus in the case of Pope Nicholas, as represented in a contemporary MS. The whole is well worth reading.

- 66, 1. 13. The nimbus of the SAVIOUR, it is perhaps needless to observe in explanation, is always inlaid, as it were, with a Cross at least the exceptions are excessively rare. 67. l. 13. These carved figures' probably signify the corbels. 71, l. 19. Called in the English Church, pomanders, because made after the fashion of an apple.

75, n. l. 1. For ût, read fût.

125. Dedication Crosses. We have seen a valuable example of these in the church of Moorlinch, Somersetshire. There are four circles containing Crosses pattées on the North and South sides of the Chancel; and two at the East end, in all ten: the other two have disappeared.

- 177. The bodies of good men called horses. The same idea is worked out at great length in S. Chrysostom's earlier homilies on the Statues.

204, l. 21. But how great is the admiration, etc. Compare S. Hildebert's Hymn, Extra portam, towards the conclusion:

Quantum tui gratulentur,

Quam festive conviventur
Quis affectus eos stringat,

Et quæ gemma muros pingat,
Quis chalcedon, quis jacintus,
Nórunt isti, quis sunt intus!

The last line has the same beautiful turn with the expression of Hugh of S. Victor.

- 217. Most of the following practices are observed to this day in the Metropolitical Church of Seville. There are two ambones, but no Rood loft: the Sub-Deacon chaunts the Epistle by himself, in the Southern ambo; the Deacon preceded by a taper, chaunts the Gospel from the Northern.

– 219 l. 32. So S. Bernard in his commentary on that verse of the 90th Psalm, "A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand."

230, n. 30. l. 4. For Herodius read Heraclius.