132 On the Church of St. Peter, Manning ford Bruce > Wiltshire. 



not encumbered with pues, and no space or accommodation was re- I 

 quired for sitting" or kneeling' in the full congregations of the Lord's 1 

 Day, because it was the custom in England, as in the east, to stand 

 during the liturgy and other prayers. 



Dean Stanley, in his History of the Eastern Church, notes it as 

 remarkable that the Scotch agree with the East in standing to pray, 

 and in abhorring instruments for religious worship. This coinci- 

 dence is easily accounted for when we realise that the whole Western li 

 Church was Eastern and Greek before it was Latin. Of the custom I 

 of standing to pray in England I will allege a proof which I dis- I 

 covered for myself. In the laws of King Ethelred, A.D. 978 — 1016, I 

 is the following passage. I will give my own translation first, and I 

 then quote the Anglosaxon words : — ■ 



"27. Or with what thought can any man ever think in his mind I 

 that he inclines head to priests, and desires blessing, and stands | 

 during their masses in Church, and at going up for bread kisses 1 

 their hand, and soon afterwards should readily injure or revile them 

 by word or deed." 



" XXVII. Oththon hwilcan gethance maeg aenig man aefre I 

 gethencan on his mode, thaet he to sacerdan heofod ahylde, and I 

 bletsinge gyrne, and heora maessan on circan gestande, and aet 

 hlaf gange heora hand cysse, and sona thaer-aefter hi hraedlice sith 

 than scyrde oththe scynde, mid worde oththe weorce." i 



This passage has been misunderstood, both by Mr. Benjamin 1 

 Thorpe and by Dr. Reinhold Schmidt. They have both mistaken I 

 " hlaf gang" going up for the holy loaf — antidoron, eulogia, in 

 Greek, pain beni, in the G allican Church, for " huselgang/-' going 

 to Holy Communion. 



4. The fourth point is the smallness of the original round-headed 

 windows, and the height at which they are placed above the floor 

 line. 



The two original windows in the apse are externally 4ft. X 1ft. 9in., 



1 Ancient Laws and Institutes of England, ed. Thorpe, 8vo, vol. i., p. 334 ; 

 Eecord Commissioners, 1840. Compare die Gresetse der Angelsachsen, Dr. 

 Reinhold Schmid, p. 386, Anhang, iv., 27 ; Leipzig, 1858. Cf . N.B., p. 137. 



