Ship

(14, 33, 33.) A Navis. or Navette. A vessel in the shape of a boat, to store the incense, from which sufficient was taken out with a spoon made for the purpose, and thrown into the censer, when required for use.

Spanged

(1, 8, 18, 20, 25, 27.) Spangled.

Sparked

(16.) Sprinkled, or dotted with sparks of gold.

Spons of silver: (11.) See Ship.

Standards

(6, 39, 44.) A large candlestick to stand on the floor.

Sierra

(26,34.) Stars.

Streamer, And Banners Of Sylke

(4, 5, 6, 7,8,11,15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 32, 33, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45.) For the processions on the Rogation-days, etc. Banners were used in alt the processions of the mediaeval Church; they were in requisition at the humblest wedding, or funeral The processions of the richer religious guilds must have been very magnificent for their display of both sacred and heraldic banner-devices. The lesser guilds, such as were found in our mere villages, frequently hired or borrowed the parochial banners of the churchwardens for their festivals.

Tablement

(24, 32.) Entablature.

Towels. Hanselling Towels

(6, 7,11,13,13,16,19, 20,24, 26, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44.) Of these there were three. Thus the Rubric before the Mass-book appoints: "Hoc altare operiatur tribus mappis sen tobaleis mun-dis;" viz. the upper one oblong, and reaching to the ground, the other two shorter, or one of them doubled. These were all to be blessed by the Bishop, or by some one who had power to do so. Housel is another form of the old Norsk husl, like the Latin, hoslia, 'the Host,' 'the Holy Eucharist.' Houselling people were communicants; and the Honselynge towel was to prevent any portion of the sacred elements falling to the ground. Mr. Mackenzie Wallcott mentions, that a cloth is still spread on the altar-rails of Wimborne Minster, and until a recent period, women carried their Prayer-books to church in a white nandkerchief, which was a relic of the houselling cloth.

In the Constitutions promulgated by the Catholic Archbishops of Canterbury, several particular mandates were issued concerning these Altar towels or cloths. Walter Reynold, who occupied the primacy somewhere about 1322, decreed that "Linteamina, Palla, Corporalia, et alia inclumenta altaris in-tegra sint et mundissima" (Provincials, Guilielmi lyndwood, p. 235). And amongst the articles of church furniture which Archbishop Robert Winchelsey (A.D. 1305) determined to be incumbent on the parishioners in his province to provide for their respective parish churches, were "Frontale ad magnum altare, cum tribus Tuellis," which Lyndwood (A.d. 1422), In his annotations, explains to be an antependium for the high altar, and three linen napkins, one which was to serve as a towel for wiping the Priest's fingers when he washed them at Mass, the remaining two as cloths to be spread under the corporal, which he remarks as denominated by such a name, because it signifies the linen bands with which the Body of our divine Redeemer was enveloped in the sepulchre. (Rock, Hierurgia, vol. ii. pp. 733, 7).

Tukieles, Tunacle, Tonable

(10, 15, 34) A close-fitting vestment worn by Deacons. The vestment of the Sub-Deacon also, when he attended on the Priest at Mass. It was somewhat shorter than the dalmatic, and had tight sleeves.

Veil, Or Lent-Cloth

(6, 7,19, 20, 24, 30, 35, 45, 47.) The curtain which, during Lent, was drawn across between the choir and sanctuary on all week-days, until the Wednesday in Holy Week, except on certain stated occasions.

Vestment

In ecclesiastical usage the Vestment was the whole of the prescribed dress of the celebrant, and it is so expressly described in Provincial Constitutions both of Canterbury and York. "That Parishioners may be informed in every particular, let all men understand and observe, that the Chalice, the Missal, the principal Vestments of the Church itself; to wit, the Chasuble, fair Amice, Stole, Maniple, Girdle, - with two towels, the great Processional Cross, etc. etc., - belong to the Parishioners.

"Hence it is that in many extant lists of Church ornaments we find no mention of Albes, or Maniples, or Stoles, or Chasubles, though several Surplices and Copes are specified. The ornaments not specified are in such a case understood under the comprehensive term, 'Vestment.' More frequently than not, the word is used in this wider and more correct sense; although many of the ancient inventories are evidently drawn up by ignorant persons. Occasionally, when it is thus used, some part of the Vestment is specified and described, on account of something noteworthy about it. When it is not used at all, the parts of which it is composed are usually named. There is one exception to the omission of the names of the several Eucharistic Ornaments in inventories that employ the term ' Vestment' to denote the whole dress. Albes are frequently noticed in them, for the obvious reason that the Albe was used at other Offices, and therefore more were required than that which belonged to the Vestment. The exception, however, does not extend beyond pariah churches." - (Notitia Eucharistica, by W. C. Scudamore, M.A., pp. 64-67).