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Oriel College in 1645. But with the Restoration matters were 

 changed. In 1659-60 New College buys six service books at 

 8s. 6d. each, and in 1662 common prayer-books, of course the 

 revised liturgy. But the most marked feature of the ritual at 

 this time is the purchase of expensive candlesticks for the 

 communion table. In 1664 Winchester College buys a pair of 

 silver-gilt candlesticks for 17 14$. %d. In 1667 New College 

 purchases a pair gilt at 33, and another pair for 35. In 

 1670 All Souls College buys two gilt sconces for the chapel 

 at $6s. 3*/. each, and, as I have elsewhere pointed out, hand- 

 some and costly altar-cloths were bought. 



There still remain some particulars on which to comment. 

 In 1623 King's College buys a chapel clock at the cost of 

 .18. Two bell-hammers in 1606 cost 2is. and i8j., and in 

 the same year 34 yards of matting to kneel on in chapel is 

 bought by All Souls College at $d. a yard. In 1680 a pair of 

 cushions for the Warden and Sub-warden cost 22 us. In 

 1596 an involucrum cadaverale, or shroud, cost 2s. 6d.\ in 

 1623 a brass plate for an epitaph 6s. 4*/., and the engraving 

 3OJ. In 1670 a parish chest with three locks cost i8j. In 

 1616 a surplice is 305.; in 1675, 465 8*/.; in 1700, 4$s. for the 

 reader, and 1 6s. 8d. for the chorister. 



Common-prayer books cost 4s. 6d. in 1587, 4^. in 1598, 

 Prayer-books, a term used for the Liturgy in New College 

 only, are 3^. 8d. in 1623, 4^. in 1624, 3^. yd. in 1626, los. and 

 95. in 1662, 12s. and 8s. in 1680, ivs. 6d. in 1683, 15^. in 1692, 

 12s. in 1693, and qs. 8d. in 1698. Liturgy-books are 35. in 

 1660. There is a Thanksgiving-service for stopping the sick- 

 ness at $d. in 1625, and a Psalter in 1660 at 2s. id. 



A Bible costs 41 s. in 1586 at Canterbury, 305. at Eton 

 College in 1594, 30*. at New College in 1628, and $is. at Cor- 

 pus Christi College in 1635. These arc church books. A Bible 

 for the hall in 1636 costs only 6^. 



A Latin Testament csts is. (xt. in 1626, a book of statutes 

 3-y. 4d. in 1599, and a book of articles %s. in 1616. At New 

 College in 1602 a service-book, by which I presume i-> meant 



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