"Item, Thereto 'longeth Heaven, made of timber and stained
clothes.
"Item, Hell, made of timber, and the iron-work 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.
"Item, 4 payr of angels' wings for 4 angels, made of timber and
well painted.
"Item, The Fadre, the crown 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 chevelers."
Ducange (vol. vi. p. 195. new edit.) gives a detailed account of the
service performed at the Easter sepulchres on the continent.
E. VEE.
Cambridge, March 27.
"_Watching the Sepulchre_" (No. 20. p. 318.).--At the present day, in
most Roman Catholic countries it is the custom to exhibit in the
principal churches at this period, and at Christmas, a kind of _tableau_
of the entombment and of the birth of the Saviour. The figures are
sometimes small, and at other times the size of life: generally
coloured, and formed of wax, wood, stone, or other materials; and when
artistically arranged, and judiciously lighted, form sometimes beautiful
objects. I have no doubt the entry in the Churchwardens' Accounts of
Waltham Abbey refers to a custom of the same kind, prevailing in the
country before the Reformation.
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