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The Churches of Devizes. 



Examples of this kind occur at Exton, Rutland; Clevedon, Somerset; Woodleigh 

 and Southpool, Devon; and Hamsey, Sussex. 



The custom of making and watching the Sepulchre, was discontinued at the 



Reformation, but revived again during the reign of Queen Mary. 

 It. pd. for making of the tabullment of the High 

 Altar and making up of the canopy on Cor- 

 pus Christi day vj d - 



The "tabula" or "retablement" was a picture painted on panel, and placed 

 above the altar, after the manner of a modern altar piece. 



It. for ij pounds waxe to the Paschal taper, and to 



the Font Taper xxj d - 



The Paschal, or Sepulchre taper, as its name implies, was a large squared taper 

 of wax used to give light during the watching in the Church at Easter. 



A small annual sum, arising from the rent of two tenements, was bequeathed 

 to the church, in the 15th century, for the maintenance of the Sepulchre taper, 



and the Font Taper. (See page 252). 



It. for a board to the Sepulchre ij d - 



1525, 17 Hen. VIII. 

 Itm. paid for mending of the Parish Priest his 



Surplice collar ij d - 



pd. for mending of a Key for the Parish Priest's 



house ij d - 



pd. for mending of the green Cope and of the 

 red Cope iij d - 



The Cope [cappa] was originally a mere protection from the weather ; a cloak 

 with a real hood behind. Gradually, however, it came into use at Yespers, for 

 assistant Priests at Mass, at Consecrations, &c. Still its ancient use was not 

 forgotten. Hence the distinction of Cappa choralis, and Cappa processionalis, 

 the former being of course much richer than the other. 



The ornament of a Cope was thrown into the hood, and the orphray or border 

 down the sides; the latter is often most beautifully worked. Sometimes it has 

 small effigies of Saints. It was fastened at the neck with a morse or clasp, often 

 exquisitely engraved. " Handbook of English Ecclesiology," Masters, 1847, p. 235. 



At Durham "The Prior had an exceedingly rich cope of cloth of gold, which 

 was so massy that he could not go upright with it, unless his gentlemen, who at 

 other times bore up his train, supported it on every side whenever he had it on." 

 "Antiquities of Durham Abbey." 



There were in Salisbury Cathedral 28 Hen. VIII. [1536], no less than forty- 

 three Copes of cloth of gold, satin, and velvet, in various colours, and ornamented 

 with embroidery, gold, silver, and pearls. "Dodsworth's Salisbury Cathedral." 

 Appendix No. I. The large chest of a semicircular form in which they were 

 kept, is still preserved there, but its contents have long since perished. 



