The ceremony of the burial or _Depositio Crucis_ is followed by the _Missa Praesanctificatorum_, the Good Friday communion with a host not consecrated that day but specially reserved from Maundy Thursday; and there is no further reference to the sepulchre until the order for Easter day itself is reached, when St. Ethelwold directs that ‘before the bells are rung for Matins the sacristans are to take the cross and set it in a fitting place.’ In the _Concordia Regularis_, then, the _Depositio Crucis_ is a sequel to the _Adoratio Crucis_ on Good Friday. The latter ceremony, known familiarly to the sixteenth century as ‘creeping to the cross,’ was one of great antiquity. It was amongst the Holy week rites practised at Jerusalem in the fourth century[46], and was at an early date adopted in Rome[47]. But the sepulchre was no primitive part of it[48]; nor is it possible to trace either the use which served St. Ethelwold as a model[49], or the home or date of the sepulchre itself. It is unlikely, however, that the latter originated in England, as it appears almost simultaneously on the continent, and English ritual, in the tenth century, was markedly behind and not in advance of that of France and Germany[50]. St. Ethelwold speaks of it as distinctively monastic but certainly not as universal or of obligation amongst the Benedictine communities for whom he wrote. Nor did the _Concordia Regularis_ lead to its invariable adoption, for when Ælfric adapted St. Ethelwold’s work for the benefit of Eynsham about 1005 he omitted the account of the sepulchre[51], and it is not mentioned in Archbishop Lanfranc’s Benedictine _Constitutions_ of 1075[52]. At a later date it was used by many Benedictine houses, notably by the great Durham Priory[53]; but the Cistercians and the Carthusians, who represent two of the most famous reforms of the order, are said never to have adopted it, considering it incompatible with the austerity of their rule[54]. On the other hand it was certainly not, in mediaeval England, confined to monastic churches. The cathedrals of Salisbury[55], York[56], Lincoln[57], Hereford[58], Wells[59], all of which were served by secular canons, had their sepulchres, and the gradual spread of the Sarum use probably brought a sepulchre into the majority of parish churches throughout the land[60].