[189-*] “Il y avoit pour cet effet en chaque piscine, comme en peut voir encore à une infinité d’autels, deux conduits, ou canaux, pour faire écouler l’eau, l’un pour recevoir l’eau qui avoit servi au lavement des mains, l’autre pour celle qui avoit servi au purification ou perfusion du chalice.”--De Vert, Explication des Cérémonies de l’Eglise, vol. iii. p. 193. [190-*] In “Le Parfaict Ecclesiastique, par M. Claude de la Croix,” (a curious work published A. D. 1666, and containing full instructions for the clergy of the Gallican church, and an exposition of the rites and ceremonies,) amongst appendages to an altar is enumerated “une credance ou niche dans le mur a poser les burettes et le bassin,” p. 536. And in another place, “au costé de l’Autel il y faut une petite niche à poser les burettes et le bassin, et y faire un trou en facon de piscine a fin que l’eau se perde en terre.” p. 568. [190-†] “In cornu Epistolæ ... ampullæ vitreæ vini et aquæ cum pelvicula et manutergio mundo in fenestella seu in parva mensa ad hæc praeparata”--Missale Romanum ex Decreto, &c. 1631. “Calix vero et alia necessaria praeparentur in credentia cooperta linteo, antequam sacerdos veniat ad altare.”--Ibid. [192-*] The earliest account of the sepulchre thus set up that I have yet met with occurs in an inventory of church furniture, A. D. 1214, in which is mentioned “_velum unum de serico supra sepulchrum_.” [193-*] “Table” was a word used to express any sculptured basso relievo, more especially that inserted in the wall over an altar. [199-*] A series of coloured engravings from the paintings on the walls of this chapel, which were evidently executed at the close of the fifteenth century, was published in 1807 by the late Mr. Thomas Fisher. [200-*] By an injunction set forth by royal authority, A. D. 1539, it was ordered, “That from henceforth the said Thomas Becket shall not be esteemed, named, reputed, and called a saint, but Bishop Becket; and that his images and pictures thorow the whole realme shal be pluckt downe and avoided out of all churches, chapel, and other places.”--Fox’s Martyrology. [209-*] The locality, character, and construction of the confessional in our ancient churches are not yet clearly elucidated. Du Cange described the confessional, “_confessio_,” simply as “cellula in qua presbyteri fidelium confessiones excipiebant;” whilst according to De la Croix, in his remarks on those of the Gallican churches in the middle of the seventeenth century, “Les confessionaux doiuent estre à l’entrée des Eglises, et non pas auprés des Autels, ny dans le Chœur, ny en lieu caché, et tousieurs vne ouuerture pour écouter le Penitent, avec vn treillis de bois ou autre estoffe, et vn volet pour le fermer, quand on écoute de l’vn des costez ouuert.” [210-*] The tabard or heraldic coat worn over the body armour, and still worn by the heralds on state occasions.