Cathedrals.

By the same Author.

1. SACRED ARCHEOLOGY: a Popular Dictionary

of Ecclesiastical Art and Institutions, from Primitive to Modern Times: comprising Architecture, Music. Vestments, Furniture, Arrangement, Offices, Customs, Ritual, Symbolism, Ceremonial, Traditions, Religious Orders, &c. of the Church Catholic in all Ages.

2. CATHEDRALIA: a Constitutional History of Cathedrals of the Western Church; being an Account of the various Dignities, Offices, and Ministries of the several members.

3. CHURCH AND CONVENTUAL ARRANGEMENT. With Groundplans.

4. MEMORIALS OF THE CATHEDRAL CITIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

5. NOTES ON CERTAIN RUBRICS FROM CANON LAW, Judgments of the Ordinary and Earlier Liturgical Directions.

TRADITIONS AND CUSTOMS

OF

Cathedrals.

BY

MACKENZIE E. C. WALCOTT, B.D.

OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD;

PRÆCENTOR AND PREBENDARY OF CHICHESTER;

F.S.A., F.R.S.L., MEMB. CORR. SOC. FRANÇ. D'ARCHÉOL.,
SOC. DES ANTIQ. DE NORMANDIE, SOC. ROY. DES ANT. DU NORD, ETC.

'A narrative memory with circumstances of time,
persons, and places, and with names.'-LORD BACON.

LONDON: PRINTED BY

SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET

PREFACE.

A SUCCINCT account of the various uses and great varieties found in our Cathedrals, embracing the curiosities of a very wide subject, I thought might interest many readers. With this intention my little volume is offered to the public, having received in the present edition a considerable accession of fresh matter, with I hope an improved arrangement of its contents. It resolves itself into three main divisions :

I. Historical, containing a sketch of the Cathedrals of the Old and New Foundation, with notices of the 'moving history' of ravage or injury, which make a further demand on our interest and sympathy beyond their sacred character, their national associations, their antiquity, their manifold contents, or their value as monuments of Art.

II. Partly Archæological, with details of their ancient customs, not without profit as examples