A glossary of liturgical and ecclesiastical terms / compiled and arranged by the Rev. Frederick George Lee.

  • Frederick George Lee
Date:
1877
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Credit: A glossary of liturgical and ecclesiastical terms / compiled and arranged by the Rev. Frederick George Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    something accurate with regard to the position which every parish occupied in its capacity for celebrating the services of the old Church of England with solemnity and grandeur may be certainly gleaned from the perusal of them. Persons who have been hitherto styled our pious Reformers/’ our judicious Reformers,” our single-hearted and unselfish Reformers ” may here be proved to have not only connived at the scandals com- plained of, but to have privately enriched themselves and their families by the abundant spoils of rifled churches and chantries. Then again, the fanaticism of such per- sons as Hooper, bishop of Gloucester, did still greater damage. His Visitation Book ” of the years 1551-52 contains statements and insinuations which are posi- tively astounding, and with which the writer takes leave to hope a very small number of the promoters of a statue to his memory at Gloucester were acquainted when they proposed its erection. With regard to altars, ‘‘ communion-tables,” chancel-screens, pews, and stained glass, he writes thus :— Item, whereas in divers places some use the Lord’s board after the form of a table, and some of an altar, whereby dissension is .perceived to arise among the unlearned; therefore, wishing a godly unity to be observed in all our diocese, and for that the form of the table may more move and turn the simple from the old superstitious opinions of the Popish Mass, and to the right use of the Lord’s Supper, we exhort you to erect and set up the Lord’s board after the form of an honest table, decently covered, in such place as shall be thought most meet [1], so that the