Fonte Cloths

(7, 16, 19, 30.) A cloth or sheet of white linen to cover the font, sometimes fringed and ornamented. Fonts were formerly kept securely closed when not in use, to prevent persons obtaining the holy water for improper purposes.

Fustane Apes

(3, 43.) A kind of fustian which took its name from the city of Naples, where it was probably first manufactured. (Eng. Oh. Furniture, p. 200).

Futtian

(18, 27, 30.) Of which two of its forme we still have in velveteen and corduroy, was originally wove at Postal, on the Nile, with a warp of linen thread, and a woof of thick cotton, which was so twilled and out that it shewed on one side a thick but low pile; and the web so managed took its name of Fustian from that Egypt inn city. At what period it was invented we do not rightly know, but we are well aware it must have been brought to this country before the Normans' coming hither, for our Anglo-Saxon countrymen; St. Stephen Harding, when a Cistercian abbot, and an old man, circ. a.d. 1114, forbade chasubles in his church to be made of anything but fustian or plain linen: "neque casulas nisi de sustaneo vel lino sine pallio ameo vel argenteo," etc. The austerity of his rule reached even the ornament of the church. From such a prohibition we are not to draw as a conclusion that fustian was at the time a mean material; quite the contrary, it was a seemly textile. Yeara afterwards, in the fourteenth century, Chancer tells us of his "Of fustian ha wered a gepon." In the fifteenth century Naples had a reputation for wearing fustians, but our English Churchwardens, not being learned in geography, made some laughable bad spelling of this, like some other continental stuffs: - "Fuscuan in appules," for fustian from Naples, is droll; yet droller still is "maustyrd devells," for a cloth made in France at a town called Mustre-villiers. (Int. to Rock's Textile Fabrics, lxxxvi, vii)

Gemores

(15.) Gimmers, hinges.

Herse-Cloth, Or Fall

(10, 15, 19, 26, 41, 43.) The Palls, herse-cloths, or bier-cloths, were of very rich material and of various colours; hut we find, contrary to common opinion, that the majority of these pre-Reformation palls were entirely black, some were red and black, others black, or with a red or white cross. (Int. Chnrch Goods in Kent., by Canon Robertson).

Herse Of Irone

(10,15.) The Herse was an open framework of iron, or wood, set up over the coffins of deceased persons, and covered with tapers, to support the pall when the service for the dead was being used. They were sometimes attached to the parish bier in which uncoffined bodies were brought to the grave, having an open-work lid, through which the corpse might be seen when the pall was drawn aside. The monumental effigies of wealthy persons were frequently covered with herses made of brass or iron, and richly gilt, of which we have examples in the Beauchamp Chapel, Warwick, and in Tanfield Church, Yorkshire.

Holy Water Pot, Or Vat

(6, 8, 9, 10,11,13,14,16,17,19, 22, 24, 28, 29,31, 32, 39,40,43,45, 46.) A portable vessel containing the holy water, with winch the people were aspersed at the commencement of High Mass.

Latten, Lalen

(3, 4, 6, 8, 9,11, 14, 17,18, 22, 24, 31, 33, 34,35, 38, 40,41, 42, 43,46.) An alloy of copper and zinc, much used in former times for sepulchral memorials. Du Cange and Nares make Latten synonymous with Orickalchurn, The term 'Latten' is still used in the trade for rolled or sheet brass.

Lent Cloth - see Veil.

Loekeram, Lokkaram

(4, 5,6, 7, 8,10,11,16,19, 20, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30,32, 34,45.) A fine linen cloth made in Brittany. "The kitchen malkin pins Her richest lockram, bent her reechy neck Clambering the walls to eye him".

Coriolanue, act ii. sc. 1.

Lyche-Bell, Cone-Belt, Burial-Belt, Burienge-Bell

(8, 9, 14, 16, 20, 24, 36, 39.) A bell rung before the corpse.

Maniple

See Fanon.

Maslin Bason

(32.) Maslin was a kind of mixed yellow metal, or brass, the precise composition of which, it is not easy to define. It appears to be distinguished from the yellow metal called latten.

Maslin, is a contraction of Meitilo or Mixtilio, wheat and rye mixed.

Oile Vat, Oyle Boxe

See CkrUmatory.

Orfrayes [Aurifrigium]

(14, 38.) Bands of embroidery, or needlework sewn on the vestments. Their place varies according to the vestment.

Organs

(2.) The word 'organ,' in the singular, was never formerly used, the instrument being always described as a pair of organs, as we still say a pair of bellows. (See Hawkins's "History of Music," vol. ii. p. 448.) St. Nicholas Church, Newbury, contained two pairs of organs.

Parcell Gittc

(1. 10, 11, 12,14, 16, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29,31, 35 37, 38, 39, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46.) Gilt inside only, or partially gilt.

Pawle

See Herse-elotL

Pax, Otherwise Paxboard, Or Ovulatory

(8, 24, 28,33, 35, 49.) A small tablet of ivory, of wood overlaid with gold, or some inferior metal, on which was a representation of our Lord's Passion. This object was kissed by the Priest in the Mass at the words. Pax Domini lit temper cobiscum, and afterwards passed round to be kissed by the congregation. This practice superseded the ancient kiss of charity in use among the early Christians. The Pax at Midgham was of glass. An ancient Pax was found by a labourer in levelling a hedge at East Grafton, near Great Bedwyn, in 1816. It is now in the museum at Devizes.