[343] This illustration was suggested to me by a distinguished Divine of the Church of England.
[344] He speaks (1079) of the Upper House expunging some parts of that subscription which had been annexed to the Bill. I find no trace of this.
[345] It is curious that in one particular, uniformity exists beyond the direction of the Prayer Book.
Lathbury says: "Both by rubrical and canonical authority, the table may be placed in the body of the Church or in the chancel."—Hist. of Con., 303. Yet the practice is to place it near the wall at the east end.
[346] Essays. On Unity and Of Church Controversies.
[347] Forster, iii., 209–240; Own Time, i. 164.
[348] Noble's Regicides, ii. 31.
[349] Orme's Life of Baxter, 454.
[350] Isaiah xvi. 4.
[351] Holmes' Annals of America, and Orme's Life of Baxter, 454.