[41] A vestment with a Latin cross on the back of the chasuble; these were common in England in the sixteenth century.
[42] Vide the design on the coffin-lid now preserved in the North Transept (p. 89).
[43] A small banner which was hung on the processional cross.
[44] Probably curtains for hanging behind the rood.
[45] Canopies for hanging above the pyx, which contained the reserved Sacrament, and was, as usual in England, suspended over the high altar. N.B.—The Roman form of altar-tabernacle seldom if ever seems to have been used in England.
[46] Burses, to keep the corporals in.
[47] The "table of the high altar" was the reredos, only exposed on high days, this cloth or upper frontal concealing it at other times. The reredos must not be confused with the great altar screen: it was quite small, and was immediately at the back of the altar itself.
[48] "Hangings for altars above and beneath" include frontals and upper frontals, the latter taking the place of the reredos, or being used to cover it at ordinary times. Some of these hangings may be "riddels" or curtains to hang at the ends of the altar. These used to hang at right angles to the reredos, and close to the altar ends.
[49] I.e., a funeral pall.
[50] Shamrock or trefoil.