542 On an Altar Stone found at Coldingham, by J. Hardy. 



with crosses led the way, the army following with banners, 

 whereon were painted the crucifix, the five wounds, and the chalice" 

 (Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Henry VIII., apud Kennett, vol. ii., 

 p. 205). The northern rebels against Elizabeth, in 1569, could 

 discover nothing more flagrant as an incentive than the same 

 devices. From Durham, "they proceeded by small journeys, 

 saying mass in all places they came to, and marching in their 

 ranks, with colours flying (some of them bearing the five wounds 

 of Christ, and others the chalice) whilst Eichard Norton, a 

 reverend old gentleman, bore a cross with a streamer before 

 them " (Camden's Elizabeth, in ibid, p. 422 ; also Annales Eer. 

 Ang., p. 166, London, 1615). Stowe (Chron., p. 663) confuses 

 the cross and the banners. " To get the more credit among the 

 favorers of the Eomish religion, they had a crosse with a banner 

 of the five wounds borne before them by Eichard Norton." It 

 is this latter statement that Wordsworth has adopted in the 

 " White Doe of Eylstone." 



" For on this banner had her hand 

 Embroidered, such was the command, 

 The Sacred Cross ; and figured there 

 The five dear wounds our Lord did bear." 

 In the provision for masses in the Collegiate church of Biggar, 

 founded by Malcolm, Lord Fleming, in 1545, there appears to be 

 an indication of the great prominence obtained by these symbols 

 at a period almost contemporaneous with these popular outbursts, 

 there having been a regular mass appointed to be celebrated 

 every Friday for the five wounds of Christ (Hunter's Biggar and 

 the House of Fleming, p. 185): Whatever there may be in the 

 consideration of these examples, the workmanship on the Slab 

 is sufficiently simple in style, as to have belonged to almost any 

 age. 



