VESSELS, AND ATl'J^lANCES OF SACRKU USE

139 Henry Denton, Hj^Jjam Ferrers. priest, whilst his cor])se was exposed to view, ])revi(jiisly to interment, and finally was deposited therewith. In default of such vessel a cup of earthen-ware was sometimes used, as we have been informed ])y iNIartene, and instances of the disco- very of such fictile chalices have occurred, even in our own country. Dr. Milner relates that, near the West Gate, at Winchester, adjoining to the parish of St. A^ilery, there had anciently been a cluu'ch and cemetery, wherein were found in graves two earthen chalices, such as were buried with priests^. It is, indeed, possible that these might have l)een small cressets, or funerary lamps, deposited in Christian sei)ulchres, according to ancient usage, as shewn by many curious ex- amples. Sepulchral brasses afford many interesting illustrations of the form of the chalice, and of the usage of its deposit in the tomb of a priest. The effigies of priests, at North Minmis, Herts, and Wensley, Yorkshire, supply ery richly decorated exani- ])les. Both of these are of the fourteenth century, and a fine spe- cimen is given by Mr. Shaw, from the memorial of a chancellor of Noyon Cathedral, who died 1 358 Many other instances may readily be enumerated; most connnonly the wafer is represented, placed over the chalice, and occasionally with rays radiating from it. The chalice is usually held between the hands, but sometimes it is placed upon the body, as in the figure ol the priest at North Mimms, al- ready noticed. fXII ■ * *1 i.*il 1" A. Apparel or Parura of the Amice. There is an mcident m the his- b. st„ie (^cwtet flnincusiiitfou quoiiui ranclbiiilenitlEii qui oliitt ^friuu),;uui Jif mciifis ■ftfmi.wuHmiotira «/.= n. Chu.uhle or CheaiblF. K. Alb, with ipparel at the feet. tory of our country, at a vQiy *- ""'"'•"■'"'" interesting period, to which it may not be inappropriate to advert, in concluding these notices of the most sacred of the ^ Tlist. of Wincliester. rations. See other examples in Cotnian's h Clutterbuck's Herts; Wallei's Sepiil- Brasses of Norfolk and Suffolk, chral Brasses; Sliaw's Dresses and Dcco-