Flowers and Festivals 



Candlemas Day, palms on Palm Sunday^ and other 

 laudable customs, were to be continued; but that none 

 of them had power to remit sin." 



A charge is extant for green wax for making flowers 

 round the candles in Ohitu Fundatoris, in the books of 

 Magdalen College, Oxford, for the year 1488-9 ^ and 

 there are various other similar disbursements at different 

 times. Payment for the last time appears to have been 

 made for decorating the chapel with green boughs for 

 the feast of S. John Baptist, in the year 1766. 



The old custom of preaching an annual sermon from 

 the stone pulpit in S. John's quadrangle was trans- 

 ferred to the Chapel about this time, as we find from 

 Whitfield; who, in a pamphlet published about the 

 year 1768, says : ^^They have lately thought proper to 

 adjourn into the Chapelt" Upon this occasion, the 

 ground was covered with green rushes and grass, as 

 were the surrounding walls and buildings with verdant 



3 Will Tonsori pro cera viridi pro floribus fiendis circa can- 

 delis in obitu Dni. Fundatoris, iiijd." — Bloxam, 262. 

 9 Bloxam, Magd. Coll. Reg., p. xxviij. 



