[160] Probably intended to represent the clappers; compare design on seal of St. Mary Magdalene’s, Winchester. [161] Lacroix, _Military and Religious Life_, 353. [162] F. T. Marsh, _Annals of St. Wulstan’s_, p. 5. [163] Chron. and Mem. 85, iii. 27–29. [164] Camden Society, _Kynge Johan_, p. 88. [p273] APPENDIX A OFFICE AT THE SECLUSION OF A LEPER [Translated from the _Manuale ad Usum Insignis Ecclesiæ Sarum_, printed in _York Manual, &c._, _Appendix_, Surtees Society, Vol. 63, p. 105^*.] _The Manner of casting out or separating those who are sick with leprosy from the whole._[165] First of all the sick man or the leper clad in a cloak and in his usual dress, being in his house, ought to have notice of the coming of the priest who is on his way to the house to lead him to the Church, and must in that guise wait for him. For the priest vested in surplice and stole, with the Cross going before, makes his way to the sick man’s house and addresses him with comforting words, pointing out and proving that if he blesses and praises God, and bears his sickness patiently, he may have a sure and certain hope that though he be sick in body he may be whole in soul, and may reach the home[166] of everlasting welfare. And then with other words suitable to the occasion let the priest lead the leper to the Church, when he has sprinkled him with holy water, the Cross going before, the priest following, and last of all the sick man. Within the Church let a black cloth, if it can be had, be set upon two trestles at some distance apart before the altar, and let the sick man take his place on bended knees beneath it between the trestles, after the manner of a dead man, although [p274] by the grace of God he yet lives in body and spirit, and in this posture let him devoutly hear Mass. When this is finished, and he has been sprinkled with holy water, he must be led with the Cross through the presbytery to a place where a pause must be made. When the spot is reached the priest shall counsel him out of Holy Scripture, saying: “Remember thine end and thou shalt never do amiss.” [Ecclus. vii. 36.] Whence Augustine says: “He readily esteems all things lightly, who ever bears in mind that he will die.” The priest then with the spade (_palla_) casts earth on each of his feet, saying: “Be thou dead to the world, but alive again unto God.” And he comforts him and strengthens him to endure with the words of Isaiah spoken concerning our Lord Jesus Christ:—“Truly He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet did we esteem Him as a leper smitten of God and afflicted” [Isa. liii. 4, Vulgate]; let him say also: “If in weakness of body by means of suffering thou art made like unto Christ, thou mayest surely hope that thou wilt rejoice in spirit with God. May the Most High grant this to thee, numbering thee among His faithful ones in the book of life. Amen.”