Buttolph's church at Boston,) that I find to have the same
privileges and indulgences as the chapel of Scala Celi at Rome;
which were so great as made all the three places aforesaid so
much frequented; it being easier to pay their devotions here,
than go so long a journey; all which indulgences and pardons may
be seen in Fox's _Acts and Monuments_, fo. 1075."
In Bishop Bale's singular play of _Kynge Johan_, published by the Camden
Society, the King charges the clery with extorting money
"For legacyes, trentalls with _scalacely_ messys
Whereby ye have made the people very assys."
(p. 17.)
And Simon of Swineshead, after drinking the poison, says,-- {403}
"To send me to heaven god rynge the holye belle,
And synge for my sowle a masse of _Scala Celi_,
That I may clyme up aloft with Enoch and Heli."
(p. 82.)
There are bulls of indulgence in Scala Coeli in Rymer's _Faedera_, xii.
565. 591. 672., xiii. 102.; but I can now only give the reference, as I
have not that work in hand.
C.H. COOPER.
Cambridge, April 6, 1850
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WATCHING THE SEPULCHRE.
"T.W." (No. 20. p. 218.) will find no end of "Items" for watching the
sepulchre, in the "Churchwardens' Accounts" before the Reformation, and
during the reign of Queen Mary. At Easter it was the custom to erect a
sepulchre on the north side of the chancel, to represent that of our
Saviour.
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