kneels the Queen; before her is an open book, and on either side two golden basins containing cramp-rings.’ Leaves 2 to 10 contain ‘certayn prayo’s to be vsed by the quenes heighnes in the consecration of the crampe ryngs’. A study of the rubrics, which are in English, suffices ‘to show the essentials for the consecration of the rings: the prayers, the royal touch, the holy water.... The recto of leaf 11 is filled with an illumination of the Crucifixion with St. Mary and St. John. In the border are the instruments of the Passion--the spear, the reed and sponge, the hammer and pincers, three nails, two scourges, and (a very unusual addition) a centre-bit of the same form as that now in use. On the verso of this leaf is a very interesting full-page illumination. At a prayer-desk, on which is an open book, kneels the Queen, turning to the right (the dexter side of the picture), wearing the head-dress familiar to us in all her portraits. Before her kneels a sufferer, apparently a young man, whose bare and swollen neck the Queen holds between her two hands. Behind him, holding open the collar of the patient’s coat, kneels the “clarke of the closett” in a cassock and gown, and with a tonsured head. On the left of the prayer-desk stands “the chaplen”, a bald-headed, venerable man in a long cassock, a somewhat short surplice with full sleeves, and the “stole abowte his neck” ordered in the rubric, reading the appointed office. The Queen wears a brown dress cut square at the neck, white sleeves, and a lace ruff and waist-bands. The office for the healing follows, commencing on folio _12a_, and ending on folio _19a_. ‘The rubrics are in red ink, bright and fresh; and each page has a rich border of scrolls, leaves, flowers, and fruit, with occasional figures of children, &c. I enumerate the most important subjects. Folio _1b_, David with head of Goliath, St. George and the Dragon, and a child with a skull; folio _2b_, arms of the city of London; folio _3a_, VERITAS TEMPORIS FILIA (the Queen’s favourite motto), with a sword and sceptre; folios _3b_ and _4a_, large terminal figures with grapes; folio _4a_, arms of France and England quarterly; folio _4b_, D̅NS MIHI ADIVTOR; folios _5a_ and _b_, portcullis and rose; folios _6a_ and _b_, PACIENTIA and PRVDĒTIA, with allegorical figures; folios _7a_ and _b_, CHARITAS and IVSTICIA; folios _8a_ and _b_, FIDES and SPES; folios _9a_ and _b_, FORTITVDO and TEMPERANCIA.’ With the death of Mary, the ceremonial seems finally to have fallen into disuse. There is, however, a passage in the _Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica_ of Nicholas Harpsfield,[258] which was written entirely in the reign of Elizabeth, which seems to throw some doubt on the point. The words are as follows: