e east end of the quier wheare the co[=mn] table
usually doth stande, the table of the c[=om]and^ts to be painted in large
caracters, with convenient speed, and furniture according to the orders
latly set furthe by vertue of the quenes ma^ts c[=om]ission for causes
ecclesiasticall, at the coste and chardges of the said churche; whereof we
require you not to faile. And so we bed you farewell. From London, the
xxi. of December, 1561."--Britton's Bristol Cath. p. 52.

[224-*] In the chancel of Bengeworth Church, Gloucestershire, is a table
of the commandments, with the letters cut in box-wood. This has the date
of 1591 upon it.

[226-*] These are engraved in vol. xx. of the Archaeologia, and, from the
general style and mouldings, appear to have been constructed in the latter
part of the fifteenth century.

[230-*] The symbolical turning towards the east whilst pronouncing the
Creed is adverted to by St. Cyril. In the Apostolical Constitutions, book
ii. sect. xxviii., the attendants at public worship are enjoined to pray
to God eastward. The custom of turning to the east at prayer is noticed by
many of the early fathers of the church, and among them by St. Basil, who
remarks, "As to the doctrines and preachings which are preserved in the
church, we have some of them from the written doctrine; others we have
received as delivered from the tradition of the apostles in a mystery.
For, to begin with the mention of what is first and most common, who has
taught us by writing that those that hope in the name of our Lord should
be signed with the sign of the cross? what written law has taught us that
we should turn towards the east in our prayers?.... Is not all this
derived from this concealed and mystical tradition?.... We all, indeed,
look towards the east in our prayers."--Basil, Epist. ad Amphiloc. de
Spiritu S. Whiston's translation in Essay on the Apostolical
Constitutions.

[231-*] Funeral Monuments, A. D. 1631, p. 701.

[232-*] Printed in Strype's Life of Parker. In the same paper the
communion table is noticed as standing in the body of the church in some
places, in others standing in the chancel; in some places standing
altarwise, distant from the wall a yard, in others in the middle of the
chancel, north and south; in some places _the table was joined, in others
it stood upon tressels_; in some the table had a carpet, in others none.

[235-*] "The position of the table had now become the token of a distinct
and so