ESSAYS ON CEREMONIAL 64 night and day, and Claude de Vert attributes this simply to the negligence of the sextons.1 The Greek Church has to this day kept the custom which … Fig 6. — The Altar in the Islip (?) Chapel, from the Islip Roll in the Library of the Society of Antiquaries ; showing the Altar, vested with frontal, but no other ornaments. was universal in Christendom to the end of the middle ages. Dr. Neale says : " The altar, though always vested, is, 1 Claude…
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