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curfew rang. "In 1399 Abp. Arundel ordered an Ave to be said 

 universally in the province of Canterbury at daybreak and at 

 curfew. Out of this custom grew the ringing of the " Angelus," 

 which was otherwise known as the Ave-bell or the Gabriel-bell.' 1 x 

 I find this in the Metford Eegister at Salisbury, f. ; 143. 2 12th 

 Feb., 1399—1400. " Mandatum pro pulsacione ignitegii et Day 

 bell." The Abp. gives indulgence of forty days for recitation 

 of the Lord's Prayer and five Aves. Indulgences were often 

 mentioned in the descriptive title-pages of printed Horae 

 beatissimae Virginis Mariae ad usum Sarishuriensis ecclesice, at 

 least as early as 1510. h\ some such primers upwards of thirty 

 indulgenced prayers are set forth, many of them offering re- 

 missions and pardons of hundreds and thousands of years, with 

 a profusion which the Council of Trent subsequently repudiated. 

 Some of the indulgences mentioned in the Sarum Primer are 

 attributed to early Popes; but several of the largest, to those of the 

 latter part of the 15th century. The books which contained such 

 indulgenced prayers were forbidden under the name of " rubric 

 primers" by Kidley in 1550 and Hooper in 1551 within their 

 dioceses, 2 and by Bp. G-uest as "superstitious popish primers" in 

 1 565. 3 In 1548 Oranmer referred to the fact that in time past 

 sums of money had been bestowed upon pardons by persons on 

 their deathbeds or at other times. 4 It was the custom to bury a 

 pu'chment scroll, on which the absolution was written, in the 

 grave with the body of the deceased person to whom it was granted. 5 

 En the 15th and 16th centuries after the Bidding of the Beads 

 in Salisbury Cathedral Church on Sundays, or at such time as the 

 relics of the Church were proclaimed, notice was published in 

 Latin or English (both forms being entered in the Precentor's 

 Processionah) that a total of nineteen years and three hundred and 

 sixteen days of pardon was available for those present and qualified 



1 {ubi supra, ii., 42 n.) 2 Frere's Visitation Articles, ii., 244, 277. 



3 lb., iii., 157. Dr. Edmund Guest was Bp. of Rochester from 1560 till 

 1571, when he was translated to Sarum. 



* lb., ii., 182. b lb., iii., p. 304, n. 



