EASTER SEPULCHRE AT PATRINGTON.
Item—Hell, made of timber, and the ironwork thereto, with Divels to the number of 13.
Item—4 Knights, armed, keeping the sepulchre, with their weapons in their hands; that is to say, 2 axes and 2 spears, with 2 paves. [A pave was a shield.]
Item—4 payr of Angels wings for 4 Angels, made of timber, and well painted.
Item—The Fadre [i.e., the Father], the Crowne and Visage, the ball with a cross upon it, well gilt with fine gould.
Item—The Holy Ghost coming out of Heaven into the sepulchre.
Item—Longeth to the 4 Angels 4 Chevelures.”
We cull from the accounts of St. Helen’s, Abingdon, Berkshire, some quaint items as follows:
| “1557. | To the sexton for watching the sepulter two nights, 8d. |
| 1559. | Payde for making the sepulture, 10s. |
| For peynting the same sepulture, 3s. | |
| For stones and other charges about it, 4s. 6d. | |
| To the sexten, for meat and drink and watching the sepulture according to custom, 22d.” |