[164-*] Anglice sermocinari solebat (Abbas Samson) populo, sed secundum Linguam Norfolchie ... unde et pulpitum jussit fieri in ecclesia et ad utilitatem audiencium et ad decorem ecclesie.—Cronica Jocelini de Brakelonda, sub anno 1187.
[167-*] Cottonian MS. Titus D. xxvii. 10th sæc.
[167-†] “Crux que erat super magnum altare, et Mariola, et Johannes, quas imagines Stigandus archiepiscopus magno pondere auri et argenti ornaverat, et sancto Ædmundo dederat.”—Cronica Jocelini de Brakelonda, p. 4.
[168-*] “Supra pulpitum trabes erat, per tranversum ecclesiæ posita, quæ crucem grandem et duo cherubin et imagines Sanctæ Mariæ et Sancti Johannis apostoli sustentabat.”—Gervasius de Combustione, &c.
[169-*] “Superest exponere, quod manus illa e nubibus erumpens indicet: Quæ procul dubio omnipotentis Dei dexteram designat.”—Ciampini Vetera Monimenta, vol. ii. pp. 22, 81.
[171-*] “In elevatione atque utriusque squilla pulsatur.”—Durandi Rationale, lib. iv.
[171-†] In Yeovil Church Accounts, A. D. 1457, is an item, “In una cordul empt p le salsyngbelle ijd.”—Collectanea Topographica, vol. iii. p. 130.
[172-*] It is now in the possession of William Staunton, esq., of Longbridge House, near Warwick.
[173-*] Durandus, in his description of a church, makes no mention of screen-work, but observes, “Notandum est quod triplex genus veli suspenditur in ecclesia videlicet quod sacra operit, quod sanctuarium a clero dividit, et quod clerum a populo secernit;” evidently alluding in the latter to the curtain extended across the chancel arch.
[174-*] “Item tunc stent in sedibus suis versa facie ad altare donec ad misericordias vel super formulas prout tempus postulat inclinent.”—Monasticon, 1st ed. vol. i. p. 951.