compilers of the Prayer-book Kalendar followed Sarum The Kalendar. instead of Roman precedent in this matter. F. E. WARREN.1 Survival of Ancient Designations of holy Days * * * 1550] 'Item the xxxt day of Marche was Palme sonday.' Ancient Item on Whytsone sonday preched the byshoppe Designations of London.' 1551] Item the xxij day of Marche was Palme sonday.' 1552] Item on Alhallon day began the boke of the new servis of bred and wyne at Powlles.' 'Item after Allhollanday was no more com munyon in no place but on the sondayes.' Chronicle of the Grey Friars of London, pp. 66, 69, 76. Camden Soc. 1562] Item, for a rope for the secounde tenor, on 'Item, to the deacon Sonday after xij. day, candles Item, to the deacon on Candlmas yeven, candles 'Item, to Johan Dudson, on Whytsown yeven..' 2 1 The foregoing article originally appeared in The Guardian, July 22, 1891. As printed above, it has been revised and added to by the writer, specially for publication in this work.-ED. 1904. 2 An old name for Easter Monday.-ED. 1904. of Holy Days. 1559-60] The ij day of Feybruary . . was candyll mas day.' 1560] The xxiiij day of Marche, was mydlent sonday.' 'The xxxj day of Marche . . . was Passyon sonday.' The vij day of Aprell, the wyche was Palm sonday. Item in gaune [gang] wyke callyd Rogasyon weke. .' 1561] (The iiij day of June, being Corpus) Christi 1561-2] 'The xv day of Marche . . . whyche was the v sonday and Passyon sonday 'The v day of Aprell, behyng Low-sonday . 1562-3] The ij day of Feybruary callyd Candyllmasse day. -The Diary of Henry Machyn, pp. 225, 229, 230, 236, 259, 279, 280, 299. Camden Soc. 1559-1662] Annunciation of our Lady.'-Lectionary, Book of Common Prayer. * 1575] Item for the ringing at the Feast of the Navytye of our Ladye. iijd.'-Accts. of Churchwardens of St. Dunstan's, Canterbury, p. 94. Lond. 1885. 1665] Thirty days after the feast of the annunciation of our blessed lady, St. Mary the virgin.'—Archbp. Sheldon's Orders, etc., to the Bishops of his Province. Cardwell, Doc. Ann., ii. 323. *Sir Edward Barkham Alderman of London, by his Will dated Jan. 15. 1632. gave unto the Parson of the new Church in Duke's Place, the yearly Sum of 40s. upon Condition the said Parson preach a Sermon in the foresaid Church upon the Maunday Thursday.' (St. James', Duke's Place.)-Stow, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, ed. Strype, Lond. 1720, vol. i. bk. ii. p. 61. by a Surrender bearing Ancient Date Aug. 11. 1595 ... for the use of the poor People Designations there, 525. yearly for ever, at the Birth of our Lord God of Holy Days. and the Purification of our Lady the Virgin.' 'Mrs. Alice Hanbury, Widow, by her last Will and Testament, dated December 3, 1595... to the use of the poor and impotent People there, 135. 4d. yearly for ever, at the Feasts of the Annunciation of our Lady. . .' (St. Andrew Under shaft.)-Ibid. vol. i. bk. ii. p. 71. 1607. Mar. 11. William Prior . . . And also for two Sermons to be preached yearly for ever, viz. on the first Sunday in clean Lent,' one Sermon. She [Q. Elizabeth] gave and granted all the Rents from the Feast of the Annunciation of our Blessed Lady last past. . . . This bore Date at Westminster the 13th of Sept. 41. Regin.' (St. Helen's, Bishopsgate.)—Ibid. vol. i. bk. ii. pp. 103, 105. 1635. Thomas Hind per Ann. £6 . . . and 20s. to the Minister, for preaching a Sermon every Eve of PalmSunday.' (St. Peter's, Cornhill.)-Ibid. vol. i. bk. ii. p. 141. * For a Sermon to be preached on Sunday next after Low Sunday; . . . The Minister allowed for his Sermon, 6s. 8d.' (St. Michael's, Cornhill.)-Ibid. vol. i. bk. ii. p. 148. To the Minister, for a Sermon on Rogation Sunday, 'To the Minister, for a Sermon on Maunday Thursday, 7s. 'To be given at Michaelmas and Lady day to the Poor.' (St. Botolph, Aldersgate.)-Ibid. vol i. bk. iii. pp. 118, 119. 1 On the afternoon of the Saturday before the First Sunday in Lent, what was formerly called "clean Lent " began.-ED. 1904. 2 From the wording of the context, this allusion to Low Sunday is postReformation in date.-ED. 1904. Designations £20 in Money for the Maintenance of two Sermons of Holy Days. yearly, for ever, viz. one upon the Lady day in Harvest,1 the other upon the Lady day in Lent.' (St. Leonard's, Shoreditch.)-Ibid. vol. ii. bk. iv. p. 53. *There is given unto this Parish, the 26. Day of March, 1628 . the Sum of five Pounds, for the Maintenance of two Sermons to be preached Yearly, on Easter Monday, and Whitson Monday.' (St. Mary Savoy.) -Ibid. vol. ii. bk. iv. p. 111. four Sermons Yearly for ever to be made, on the Feast Days of All Saints, the Purification of our Lady, the Ascension of our Lord God, and St. John Baptist.' (St. Clement Danes, 1603.)-Ibid. vol. ii. bk. iv. p. 114. * The Marriage of the two excellent Princes, Frederick, Prince Palatyne, and Lady Elizabeth, sole Daughter of our Sovereign Lord King James, was solemnised on Shrove Sunday, being the 14th of February 1612, in his Majesty's Chapell Royal at Whitehall.'-Ibid. vol. ii. bk. vi. p. 5. * The Dean to preach four Times in the Year that is, upon Christmas-Day, Easter-Day, Whitsunday, and Alhallowday.' (Westminster Abbey.)—Ibid. vol. ii. bk. vi.p.11. *Mariamne Briarly, only Daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Briarly, born on Passion Sunday, 1688 . . .' 'Henry Lidgould left £5 a Year, for ever, to be distributed to the Poor on Maunday Thursday.' (St. Martin's in the Fields.)-Ibid. vol. ii. bk. vi. pp. 72, 73. 1 The term Lady day was anciently applied to other feasts of the Blessed Virgin besides March 25. e. g., Wretyn at lu'do' on the Fryday be for owr ladys day the natyvite, 1454' (Paston Letters, iii. 224). 'Our Lady's Day the Assumption' occurs several times in this collection; see iii. 90, 286. The festival of the Assumption, Aug. 15, or that of her Nativity, Sept. 8, may be intended by 'Lady day in Harvest,' quoted above. See Dr. Neale's Essays in Liturgiology, p. 526. Lond. 1863. -ED. 1904. 2 i. e. the First Sunday in Lent.-ED. 1904. *The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper is administered Ancient and every Sunday from Palm-Sunday to Trinity- Designations Sunday.' (St. James', Westminster.)—Ibid. vol. ii. bk. vi. p. 82. of Holy Days. *1684 George Wilkinson . . . gave and paid down £30 for 30s. to be given yearly on Shrove Sunday to the poor in Bread for ever.' (St. Paul's, Shadwell.)—Íbid. vol. ii. Appen. i. p. 106. * "One Annuity or Yearly Rent of £20. to be paid unto such Minister half yearly, for the Preaching of four Sermons in every Year in the said Chapel of Bow, on the Days following: On Friday next before Easter, commonly called Good Friday: Ascension Day, commonly called Holy Thursday. (Stratford le Bow.) Ibid. vol. ii. Appen. i. p. III. * At the Visitation of 1691 we find Maurice Lisle presenting John Rhodes, writing master, for teaching school upon the 30th of January [King Charles, Martyr], and for publick teaching in the free schoole upon Candlemas day, in time of Divine Service. . . ."'—The Remains of Denis Granville, i. 227 n. Surtees Soc., vol. xxxvii. *1684. 8th May. On Holy Thursday I waited on the Bishop of Rochester, who showed much forwardnesse and zeale for the promoting of Weekly Sacraments 1 in Cathedralls. . .'—Ibid. ii. 125. Surtees Soc., vol. xlvii. * I allowed myself now but one day more and that was last Wednesday, being Twelfth-day.' (Read's Weekly Journal of Jan. 9, 1731.) 'It appears from a very solemn address to the publick inserted in the Newspapers for 1762, that the brutal custom of throwing at Cocks on Shrove Tuesday was not then so uncommon as it happily is at present.'-Malcolm, Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London, i. 292, 351. 2nd ed. Lond. 1811. 1 i, e. a weekly celebration of Holy Communion, a matter which Dean Granville had greatly at heart.-ED. 1904. |