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adequately described in a note. It contains fine stone mouuments 
of the Goddards and the Waldrons, with figures in the costume of 
the reign of James I., all painted; a large incised altar-tomb of 
the date of 1501, to “ Magister Johannes Stone,” a chantry priest ; 
and a small brass, the demi-figure of another chantry priest, Henry 
Frekylton, with chalice and book in the corners above him, which 
will be given in Mr. Kite’s work on the brasses of Wilts. 
In the oldest parish register there is written in a cotemporaneous 
hand the following order : 
‘* A copy of the Order sent from the Right Reverend father in God the Bishop 
of Sarum to the Parish of Alborne for the placing of the Holy Table and 
administration of the Holy Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. 
‘‘ John [Davenant, consecrated 1621, ob. 1641] by divine Prouidence Bishop 
of Sarum To the Curate and Churchwardens with the Parishioners of Awborne 
in the County of Wilts and our Diocese of Saru, greeting. 
‘‘ Whereas his Ma‘* hath beene lately informed that some men factiously dis- 
posed have taken upon themselves to place and remove the Communion Table in 
the Church of Awborne and thereupon his highnes has required me to take p'sent 
order therein These are to let you know that both according to the Iniuncsions 
given out in the Raigne of Queene Elizabeth for placing the Communion Table 
in Churches, and by the 82 Canon agreed vpon in the first yeare of the Raigne 
of King James of Blessed Memory, it was intimated that those Tables should 
ordinarily be sett and stand with the side to the East wall of the Chauncell I 
therefore require you the Churchwardens and all other persons not to meddle 
with the bringing down or transposing of the Communion Table, as you will 
answere at yo’ owne perill and because some doe ignorantly suppose that the 
standing of the Communion Table where Altars stood in times of Sup.stition has 
some relish of Poperoy and some p.chance may erroniously conceive that the 
placing thereof otherwise when the Holy Communion is administered savo™ of 
Irreuerence. I would have you take notice from the forenamed Iniunction and 
Canon from the Rubricke pr*fixed before the administracon of the Lords Supper 
and from the first Article not long since enquired of in the Visitacon of our most 
Revered Metropolitan [Archbishop Laud] that the placing of it higher or lower 
in the Chauncell or in the church is by the iudgment of the church of England 
a thing indifferent and to be ordered and guided by the only rule of Convenientie. 
Now because of things of this nature to iudge and determine what is most con- 
‘venient belongs not to private persons but to those who have Ecclesiasticall 
authority—I inhibit you the Churchwardens and all other persons whatsoever to 
meddle with the bringing downe of the Comunion Table or with altering the 
place thereof at such times as the Holy Supper is to be administered And I 
require you herein to yeeld obedience unto what is already indged most con- 
venient by my Chancellor vnless upon further consideration and viewe it shall be 
otherwise ordered. 
“Now to the end that the Minister may neither be overtoyled nor the people 
