Note.

(1) The Cover of the Chalice is called Paten, and the Corporas Cloath is so called, because the Body of their God rests upon it.

(2) I find a Story Recorded that in the year 526. In the Jacobin Convent, in Auserre, an old Page  33 Fryar of that place having been almost rotten with the Pox, and had not said Mass a long time, resolves to Feast himself with his God on Corpus Christi Day, but not able to digest it, thinking to return to his Chamber, he disgorges that, with other filthy stuffe just before the Chapter Door—This sets all the Convent in an uproar, and the Prior being absent, they consult a while, and at last set up a Taberna∣cle over it, as they do when they sing for the Dead, with four wax Tapers, one at each corner—then the Novices sung all day this versicle, Tantum ergo Sa∣cramentum veneremur cern•i, &c. they sang also the Antiphone of the same day, viz, O sacrum Con∣vivium; &c. that is, O Sacred Banquet, yet none of them had the Stomach to taste it, so that they could never have more truly said, Domine non sum Dignus ut intres sub Tectum meum, Lord I am not worthy that thou shouldst enter under my Roof,—viz. to be swallowed by me.

At last they agree to shovel the holy vomit toge∣ther, and reverently gather it up, and that the ground should be carefully pared and all carried into the Church—then comes the Superior in his holy Vest∣ments who with the whole Convent went into the Church in solemn Procession, two Novices march∣ing before the Shrine, with Candlesticks, & Tapers. Well the ground is pared, and the holy vomit gather∣ed up with anointed Fingers—some set up their how∣ling Notes, and some shed their Crocodile Tears at so doleful a Spectacle, to the great confusion of their Solemn Feast—Now they consult what was▪ best to be done with it, some of the oldest Doctors advised it should be burnt and the Ashes kept in a Shrine▪ which was immediately done—And now Gentlemen there's your blessed Relique. The two Novices men∣tioned▪ were amaz•d at this abominable Passage, and upon deep scrutiny resolved (God in mercy so or∣dering Page  34 it,) to forsake that filthy Profession, and therefore left the Convent and became worthy Pro∣fessors of the Gospel. From whom this Passage was received, and Published by Mr. Stocker in English, near one hundred years ago.