The Mediaeval Court in the Crystal Palace, Described by M.D. Wyatt and J.B. Waring (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...service of the cathedral except mass. On the eve of Innocents' Day, the boy-bishop and his prebends walked in procession to the church, preceded by the dean, canons and chaplains, and seated himself on a throne with his boy-prebends ranged round him, the resident canons bearing incense, and the minor canons, tapers; origin of next day a similar ceremony took place, and this was initheStm followed-y the resignation of the boy-bishop. In the Golden Golden Legend, fol. 29, in the history of St. Nicholas, Legend, may foun(j a fun account of the origin of this custom. Mr. stot-Stothard, in his "Monumental Effigies" is inclined to hard's believe that it represents an actual bishop; since a as to the small statue of a bishop exists in Winchester Cathedral STeffigy' of about the same date (Bishop Ethelmar, 1260). This supposition is strengthened by the results of later investigations, which have brought to light a large number of these small statues, not of ecclesiastics only, but of knights and civilians. At Abbey Dore Church, Herefordshire, is a small statue of a bishop, 14j inches long. At Horsted Keynes, Sussex, a mail-clad knight, cross-legged, and at Haccombe, Devon, a civilian, &c. The custom of burying the heart, the body, and even Corroborathe viscera of the dead in different localities, was very stances common during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, founded on and Blanche d'Artois, wife of Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, custom1" who died in 1302, and whose body was buried at Paris, and her heart at Nogent l'Artault, is commemorated by a diminutive effigy now preserved at St. Denis, near Paris; a fact which appears to indicate the meaning of these small statues, viz., that they were in all probability raised only over a portion of th...