Twenty-two of the churches of Essex architecturally described and illustrated (1856)
Buckler, George · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 129
y in the SeventeenthCenturies, the Celebration of the Mass, in this country, wasstrictly forbidden. It was illegal to use the Chapel; the Priesttherefore celebrated mass secretly in a chamber, opening fromwhich was a hiding-place, to which he could retreat in time ofdanger ; and where also the… … ANTIQUE CIIIiST FOR SACKED VESTMEKT8, ETC. four feet two and a half inches in length, one foot seven inchesin width, and one foot ten and a half inches in height to the topof the arched lid. The wood appears to be yew, only threequarters of an inch in thickness, very carefully put together, lined…
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