236 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Artieles. 



derivation of this name " Lieuckevel" : " Chevel" being the Norman- 

 French, for Chef, meaning a manor house. There is an account in some 

 detail of the forty Prebendaries who have held the prebend. 



Ceremonies and . Processions of the Cathedral 

 Church of Salisbury. Edited from the fifteenth 

 Century MS. No. 148, with additions from the 

 Cathedral Records, and Woodcuts from the 

 Sarum FROCESSIONAI.E of 1502, by Chr. 



Wordsworth, M.A., Master of St. Nicholas' Hospital, Sarum. 

 Cambridge : at the University Press, 1901. Cloth, 8vo., pp. xxiv., 387. 

 Price 15s. 



In the short preface to this volume Canon Wordsworth reminds us 

 that the " Use of Sarum " from the time of the building of the new 

 Cathedral "has maintained a certain prestige in England, and even in 

 the Church beyond the seas," and after the introduction of printing (to 

 judge from the Catalogue of the British Museum) few Churches, if any, 

 had a larger number of editions of their service books printed between 

 the years 1475 and 1558 than this unpretentious city in Wiltshire." 

 Within the last half century, too, numbers of books of " Sarum Use " have 

 been printed or re-printed. " But while there has been a fair supply of 

 books of Sarum Use, there has hardly been one among them which 

 belonged in any special way to the Mother Church of Salisbury itself. 

 It is this fact, that our manuscript Processional was used in the Cathedral 

 Church, and had been written for it specially, that gives it a special 

 claim on our attention and has called for its appearance in a printed form." 



The original book was written about 1445, for the use, probably, of 

 one of the senior canons of the Cathedral, and it contains much that is 

 different from, or in addition to, the ordinary " Processionale ad usum 

 Insignis et preclare ecclesice Sarum," as printed by Pynson in 1502. 

 The Form for the Bidding of the Bedes^the Publication of the Eelics — 

 the Order for visiting and washing of the altars — and the Maundy potus 

 carifatis, are all peculiar to the Cathedral Church itself. Certain gaps 

 in the MS., where leaves have been destroyed, such as the service for the 

 Chorister Bishop, or Episcojyus Puerorum, are supplied by the Editor, 

 from other sources. The very quaint woodcuts indicating the position 

 of the various ministers and personages in a procession or ceremony are 

 copied from those in early printed editions. In addition to the MS. 

 which gives its title to the book and the notes thereon. Canon Wordsworth 

 gives us the contents of a number of other episcopal and capitular records 

 of various sorts connected with the Cathedral — many of the subjects dealt 

 with being of the greatest interest — all of them edited, annotated, and in- 

 dexed with a fulness that only real learning and great labour could produce. 

 The list of the relics possessed by the Cathedral is most curious. In 

 addition to relics of the Saviour, the Blessed Virgin, and St. John Baptist, 

 those of no less than eleven apostles, ninety-three martyrs, three innocents, 

 fourteen disciples, twenty-six virgins, and eighty-three confessors were 



