eful indeed, but notessential. It was not ordered as a requisite partof the furniture of the church, to be provided atthe cost, if needful, of the parishioners, until theCanons of 1603, the eighty-third of whichinsists on the churchwardens or questmen provid-ing a comely and decent pulpit, which is… … John Knoxs Pulpit. (From St. Giless Church, Edinburgh.) sixteenth or seventeenth century, and in othercases the pulpit was a light movable structure,like one still preserved at Hereford, which wasonly placed in the body of the church when 126 ANTIQUITIES AND CURIOSITIES. required, and which was…
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