jS Continuation of the State of 



Names of artifts in thefe reigns, of which 

 even fo few authentic records exid:, are not 

 to be expefted — one I have found, the par- 

 ticulars of whofe work are exprefTed with 

 fuch rude fiir.plicity> that it may not be 

 unentertaining to the reader to perufe them. 

 They are extrafled from a book belonging 

 to die church of St. Mary Ratcliffe at BriiloL 

 Memorandum, 



That mafter Cumungs hath delivered the 

 4th day of July in the year of our Lord 

 J 470 to Mr. Nicholas Bettes vicar of Rat- 

 cliffe, Mofes Couteryn, Philip Barthole- 

 mew, and John Brown, procurators of Rat- 

 cliffe beforefaid, a new fepulchre well-gilt, 

 and cover thereto, an image of God Al- 

 mighty ryfing out of the fame fepulchre, 

 with all die ordinance that longeth thereto ^ 

 that is to fay, 



A lath made of timber and iron worl^ 

 thereto j 



Item, Thereto longeth Heven^ made of 

 timber, and ftained cloth ; 



Item, Hell, made of timber and iron 

 work, with devils, the number, thirteen ; 



Item, Four knights armed, keeping the fe- 

 pulchre, with their weaponii in their hands, 



that 



