Thus, even if the Rubric could be shown to refer to the ornaments used under the book, it cannot be honestly limited to those ornaments that are mentioned in that book; for many that were used are not mentioned (as altar-lights), some even that were indispensable are not mentioned (as the linen altar cloth). And in these omissions it follows the missals of Sarum, Bangor, York, and Hereford.[1]
Nor, indeed, does this reference of the Rubric to the First Prayer Book give much help to those who oppose ceremonial. For, besides allowing such gestures as crossing and knocking upon the breast, the Book orders the albe with vestment or cope, and tunicles[2] for ‘the Supper of the Lord and the Holy Communion, commonly called the Mass,’ the rochet, cope or vestment and pastoral staff for the bishop,[3] the chrisom-cloth,[4] the corporas cloth,[5] and wafer-bread.[6] It implies the use of further ornaments in giving directions for unction,[7] reservation for the sick,[8] and the burial of and Mass for the dead.[9] It is not, therefore, surprising that Bonner used the book, and that Gardiner expressed his approval of it.[10]
But, as a matter of plain fact, the Ornaments Rubric does refer behind even the First Prayer Book to the ‘second year’ of Edward vi, before that book had come into use, before one single ornament could have been abrogated by that book.
- ↑ The evidence for lights is elsewhere.
- ↑ First Prayer Book, 65-6.
- ↑ Ibid. 171.
- ↑ Ibid. 106, 159.
- ↑ Ibid. 75.
- ↑ Ibid. 90.
- ↑ Ibid. 106, 140.
- ↑ Ibid. 142, 144.
- ↑ Ibid. 146-157.
- ↑ Gasquet, Ed. VI, and B.C.P. 281-5.
vestments for deaon and sub-deacon, and patens, two chalices, four corporax clothes, four steeple bells, the Bible and Paraphrases of Erasmus) the following ornaments not mentioned in the First Book, – one pax, one crosse, one pix, two sacring bells, sixteen alter-clothes, six towels, two hand towels, six corporax cases, three little pillows standing on the altar, a case clothe of red solke, two blake palls, eight olde banner clothes for the crosse, two sepulchre clothes, and other hangings (Record Office, Q. R. Church Goods 3/43).
