By Canon W. U. Jones. 339 



pedibus contra solis cursum . . . fecerunt/' It may be added^ 

 that walking wif/d?i the [church in procession, singing the litanies 

 each Wednesday and Friday during Lent, was peculiar to the Sarum 

 Use. 



On high festivals, such, for example, as Ascension Day, not only 

 were the number of attendants increased — there were, for instance, 

 three acolytes, each bearing a cross, and two thurifers, with a number 

 of banners, and in particular two, one of which was called " Leo " 

 and the other " Draco," symbolizing, it is said, how the " Lion of 

 the tribe of Judah " had, by his uprising to heaven, won his last 

 fight with the devil " the great dragon " — but certain relics in a 

 shrine, which were carried by canons clad in silken copes. On this 

 occasion, the procession advanced from the choir down the nave, 

 and so through the great western door; and then, turning to the 

 right, went round the church and cemetery, re-entering at the 

 western door. They then proceeded up the nave, and halting at the 

 choir-entrance, as before, for the accustomed prayers and ceremonies, 

 went back to their accustomed places in the choir. 



On Rogation Days the processions took a still wider range. On 

 one of these days, with their banners of the " Lion " and the 

 " Dragon," going out by the south door of the church and then 

 through the western gate of the city, and so round the city on its 

 north side, they would enter one of the churches, and, after cele- 

 brating mass there, would return to the cathedral through the 

 eastern city gate. On another they would go first through the east 

 gate to some church, where having in like manner celebrated mass, 

 they would then return through the western city gate, after perambu- 

 lating the city on its south side. 



But on this and many other matters connected with this portion 

 of the Consuetudinary, such as the procession, and its attendant 

 ceremonies, on Maundy Thursday, that on Easter Eve for the hal- 

 lowing of the paschal fire, or the blessing of the fonts, or that on 

 Low Sunday ( Dominica in Albis), when they who had been recently 

 baptised laid aside their white robes or chrysms, or the processions 

 " venerationis causa" or for rendering the last oflSces to a deceased 

 member of the cathedral body, we have hardly space to enter. 



