[122] Joel ii. 17.
[123] Injunctions of Edward VI. and Queen Elizabeth.
[124] See Wheatly on the Common Prayer, p. 161.
[125] "The earliest examples remaining are of wood, many of them beautifully carved, as at Bury and Ramsay, Huntingdonshire; Swancombe, Debtling, and Lenham, Kent; Newport, Essex; Hawstead, Suffolk."—Parker's Glossary.
There are beautiful examples of brass lecterns at Magdalene and Merton Colleges, Oxford, in most of our cathedrals, and many parish churches.
[126] Derived from the French aile, a wing. It is no uncommon thing to hear persons who ought to know better talk about side aisles, as if there were any other than side aisles.
[127] Derived from the Greek, ἁγιος [hagios], holy, and σκοπἑω [skopeô], to view. There are very good specimens at St. Clement's, Sandwich, and at St. Mary's, Gloucester. The latter has three compartments.
[128] In some few churches—as at Rottingdean, Sussex—the chancel, by the deviation of its north or south wall from the line of the nave, represent the inclined head of our Lord upon the cross.
[129] The German word for piscina is Wasserhälter, water-holder.
[130] Derived from the Italian credenzare, to test by tasting beforehand; which refers to an ancient custom for the governor of a feast to taste the wines before presenting them to his guests. The application of the word to this piece of Church furniture is supposed to have its origin in an attempt once made to mix poison with the eucharistic elements.