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Emblems of our Lord 



time a popular opinion prevailed, that if this figure 

 be placed against the body, the angles will point to 

 the places where our Blessed Lord was wounded; and 

 so there arose an old superstitious conceit that the 

 figure was a Fuga Demonum — the devils were aft-aid 

 of it. 



^'This mark was used, as the sign of the ►J^ is now, 

 at the beginning of letters and bookes, for good luck's 

 sake ; and the women amongst the J ewes (Dr. Ralph 

 Bathurst tell me) did make this mark on the children's 

 chrysome cloathes " (a curious misapplication of the 

 word "chrysome," for Jews were not christened). "My 

 old friend, Mr. Lancelot Morehouse, rector of Pert- 

 wood, Wilts, was wont to marke this mark at the top 

 of his missive letters, as the Roman Catholiques doe 

 the And he told me (1660) that the Greeke 

 Christians did sol" 



The " Magical Pentalpha " is represented in the 

 west window, south aisle, of Westminster Abbey. 



3 Aubrey. 



