Paynes

(6,10, 32, 34, 35, 36.) Composed of panes, or small squares, variegated.

Poz

(12.) Abbrev. for peruana, weighing.

Pyllow

(7. 13, 18, 33.) Pillows to kneel upon, and cushions of silk for the high altar, to rest the Missal upon. "In cornu epistolae Cussinus aupponendus Missali".

Pyllow Here

(4, 8.) A pillow-case.

Pypes And Knottes

(32.) Refers merely to a description of the pattern upon the cross.

Pyx

(3, 6, 7,10,11,12,13,14, 16, 19, 20, 23, 28, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 38, 40, 43, 45, 46.) This vessel, used for holding the little box or pix in which the Holy Eucharist was preserved, was usually in the form of a cup of gold, or silver, or some less precious metal. This receptacle was suspended over the altar, decorated by a corona, and enclosed in a sacrament-cloth of semi-transparent muslin. These canopies were sometimes made with three crowns, thus resembling somewhat in form the Papal tiara. It is highly improbable that the resemblance was more than accidental, although it would seem that the shape was supposed to have a symbolical meaning. An illustration in a Life of St. Edmund, King and Martyr, to be found in the Harlcian Library (2278, fol. 556), has been published by Doctor Rock. It shews us the cup itself, enclosed in an envelope of cloud-like muslin, and surmounted by a canopy of three crowns. (Peacock, Eng. Ch. Furnit,, pp. 70, 71).

Pyx-Cloth

(7.) A canopy of lace, in which a hole was worked, through which a spike pierced at the top of the pyx, and over which the lace was thrown; called also a Sacrament-cloth.

Raye Satin

(16.) Silk of its natural colour, that has never been coloured or dyed.

Rochett

(6,12,17,19,20,22,25,32,42,45.) A surplice without sleeves, ordered to be worn by the Clerk that ministered to the Priest, or by the Priest himself, when he baptized, and required to have his arms at liberty and disencumbered.

Rood-Cloth

See Cross cloth.

Sacring Or Sacrament Bell

(i, 5, 8, 16, 17, 24, 25, 29, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44.) A small bell within the chancel, rung at the elevation of the Host; usually of brass, but occasionally of silver.

Sanctus Bell, Or Saunce Bell

(3, 4, 6, 9, 11, 18,14,15,17, 21, 26.) The bell rung at the elevation of the Host at the parish Mass: it was fixed outside the church, frequently on the apex of the eastern gable of the nave.

Satgn Of Sypers

( 7.) A sort of fine corded-stuff, partly silk, partly hair, so called from the island of Cyprus, from whence it was first brought.

Ryghte Sattene, Right Pere Satyn

(5,8,20,47.) True, entire, pure satin, without admixture of cotton.

Tynceted Saltene

(18, 80.) A lustrous metallic shine produced by an admixture of silk and copper.

Sage

(10, 18, S3, 30, 31, 33, 45.) Serge made entirely of wool.

"Ah! thou say, thou serge, nay thou buckram lord".

2 Henry VI., act iv. sc.7.

Sarcenet

(5,15,18, 21, 27, 29, 34), during the fifteenth century, took by degrees the place of cendal, at least here in England.

By some improvement in their wearing of cendal, the Saracens, it is likely in the south of Spain, earned for this light web, as they made it or sold it, a good name in our markets, and it became much sought for here. Among other places, York Cathedral had several sets of curtains for its high altar, "de sarcynet." At first we distinguished this stuff by calling it from its makers, "Saracenicnm;" but while Anglicising, we shortened that appellation into the diminutive "sarcenet;" and this word we keep to the present day for the thin silk which of old was known amongst us as "cendal." (Intr, to Rock's Textile Fabrics, xlii).

(5, 10, 37, 38, 40, 42, 44, 47.) A slight and temporary erection of wood, hung with the best and richest

Sails of gold and silver cloth, or costly silks, which could be found, or had been bequeathed for the purpose. Usually there stood within it a winged angel watching, as it were, its little door; and tapers burned, and people gazed into it, from Good Friday till early mora at Easter. Sometimes, however, this tomb was made to be lasting, and built of stone.

An aumbry, or niche, on the northside of the chancel, on which the Host was reserved from Maundy Thursday till Easter-day.

In some of the, large churches they were frequently of stone, elaborately carved and ornamented.

Before the changes of ritual in the sixteenth century, remarks Mr. Peacock (Eng. Ch. Furniture, p. 16), every village church, or nearly so, possessed an Easter sepulchre. The sepulchres were usually moveable closets of wood, □□ which were suspended, during Passion-week and Easter-tide, hangings of precious silk, or gold and silver tissue. In the more costly churches, built during the Decorated and Perpendicular periods, they were frequently of stone, elaborately carved and ornamented. The original form was of a small arched recess in the north wall of the chancel; but in later times the design was developed with many ornamental and symbolic details.

At the Mass on Maundy Thursday, besides the Host received by the officiating Priest, another Host is, and always has been, consecrated by him for the morrow's (Good Friday's) celebration; and because no consecration of the Holy Eucharist, either in the Latin or the Greek part of the Church, ever did or does take place on Good Friday, the service on that day is by the West called the "Mass of the Pre-sanctified." by the East

Folded up in a corporal (a square piece of fine linen), the additional Host consecrated on Maundy Thursday was put into this receptacle, or capsula corporalium of the old rubrics, and afterwards carried in solemn procession to its temporary resting-place, known in England as the sepulchre; and there, amid many lights, flowers, and costly hangings of silk and palls of gold and silver tissue, was watched by the people the rest of that afternoon, and all the following night, till the morning of the next day, when, with another solemn procession, it was borne back to the high altar for the Goad Friday's celebration. (Dr. Rock's Textile Fabrics, pp. 113, 113).

The church of S. Mary, Beading, contains an Easter Sepulchre, with two canopies and Purbeck marble columns. The Churchwardens' books shew amongst the entries: -

"1555. Payde the man for watching the sepulchre, Os. 8d".