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The repressor of over much blaming of the clergy.

meete with him; but a baar vncouered crosse was brouȝt forth aȝens the processioun, that the proces|sioun schulde meete aȝens it, as y haue red in dy|uerse oolde ordinalis of cathedrale chirchis and of mo|nasteries in Ynglond: [In the York Missal (in Dominic. Palm.) printed at Paris in 1533, occurs this rubric: "Deinde, cum ante tentorium processio ordinata fuerit, diaconus, accepta benedictione a prælato, cum presbytero et sub|diacono, et crucifero et ceroferariis, in medio stans, legat Evangelium S. Matth. xxi.: 'In illo tempore, cum appropinquasset,' &c." The adora|tion of the Host occurs later in the service.] thouȝ in latir daies and name|lich in summe chirchis the eukarist is born forth, and the processioun meetith with the eukarist born in a chest among relikis, and in manie placis he is born in a coupe ordeyned therto. [The Salisbury Missal (Paris, 1513,) agrees very nearly with Pecock's account; we have there the following rubric (in Dominic. Palm.):—"Dum distribuuntur rami (palmarum sc.) præparetur fere|trum cum reliquiis, in quo Corpus Christi in pyxide dependeat; . . . . lumen deferatur in laterna proce|dente cum cruce denudata et duobus vexillis præcedentibus." Various anthems accompany these rites, partly taken from Matth. xxi., after which follows the Gospel as before: "Cum appropinquasset Jesus." (Matth. xxi.) The an|thems with the notes are given at length in the "Processionale ad usum insign. Eccl. Sarum." (Paris, 1530.)] Thanne thus: In tho daies and in tho placis whanne and where the processioun mette in Palmesunday with the nakid crosse or with the chest of rilikis withoute the eukarist, summe of the clerkis weren ordeyned forto stonde bifore the seid crosse and forto turne hem toward the processioun and seie in singing to al the clergie and peple thus: O Sion mysti douȝter, lo, the King mylde and meke sitting vpon beestis cometh to thee; whom the lesson of prophetis hath bifore spokun: This is he which cometh fro Edom, in clothis died with blood, ful comeli in his garnement, passing forth in vertues, and not in horsis of bateil, neither in hiȝe touris. [Pecock badly reads turribus.] This is he which as an innocent lomb is bitraied to
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The repressor of over much blaming of the clergy.
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Recock, Reginald, bp. of Chichester, 1395?-1460?
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London,: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts,
1860.
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Lollards
Great Britain -- Church history

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