Anno 1549. the 3d. of EDWARD the Sixth.
Imprimis, Sold the Silver plate which was on the desk in the Charnel, weighing five ounces for twenty five shillings.] Guess the gallantry of our
The church-history of Britain from the birth of Jesus Christ until the year M.DC.XLVIII endeavoured by Thomas Fuller.
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Church by this (presuming all the rest in proportionable equipage) when the desk,* 1.1 whereon the Priest read, was inlaid with plate of silver.
Item, Sold a rod of iron which the curtain run upon before the Rood,* 1.2 nine, pence.] The Rood was an Image of Christ on the Corss, made generally of wood, and erected in a loft for that purpose, just over the passage out of the Church into the Chancel. And, wot you what spiritual mysterie was couched in this position thereof? The Church (forsooth) typified the Church Militant, the Chancel represents the Church Triumphant; and all, who will pass out ot the sormer into the latter, must go under the Rood-lost; that is, carry the cross and be acquainted with affliction. I add this the rather, because a 1.3 Harps¦field, that great Scholar (who might be presumed knowing in his own art of Superstition) confesseth himself ignorant ot the reason of the Rood-scituation.
Item, Sold so much Wax as amounted to twenty six shillings.] So thristy the Wardens, at that they bought not candles and tapers ready made, but bought the wax at the best hand, and payed poor people for the making of them. Now they sold their Magazine of wax as useless. Under the Reformation more light and fewer candles.
Item, Paid for half of the Book called Paraphrase, five shillings.] By the seventh Injunction of King Edward, each Parish was to procure the Para∣phrase of Erasmus, namely, the first part thereof on the Gospels, and the same to be let up in some convenient place in the Church.
Item, Spent in the Visitation at Chelmsford amongst the Wardens and other honest men, fourteen-shillings four pence.] A round summe I assure you in those dayes. This was the first Visitation (kept by Nicholas Ridley newly Bishop of London) whereat Waltham-Wardens ever appeared out of their own Town, whole Abbot formerly had Episcopal Jurisdiction.
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Fox Acts & Mon. in the examination of Tho. Hawks. pag. 1590.