Ceremonies and Processions

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Excerpt from Ceremonies and Processions: Of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury Ver' since the establishment of the new Cathedral Church at Salisbury in the days of Abp Langton and K. Henry if not from the earlier times of Lanfranc and the Norman Conqueror, the use OF sarum has maintained a certain prestzge in England, and even in the Church beyond the seas. In 1228 Pope Gregory IX. Had heard of the fame of Osmund's Institutions', and it was averted by a Roman Catholic writer in 1608, that in ancient tymes the Catholicke Bishops of Salisbwy obtayned the Titles of the Pope's Maister of the Cerimonyes, and had their places alwayes assigned them in the Pope's Chappell and other solemnityes at Rome, according to that And in the Provincial Episcopal College of the Abp of Canterbury, when the Primate of All England is solemnly celebrating Divine Service, the Bishop of Salisbury, according to antient custom, rules the choir as Precentor'. The Church of Salisbury in successive generations maintained its preeminence inst'gm} ac precla ra, ' £11.11n a: inter om'duos nomz'rzatissinm, ' were epithets constantly applied to it by the printers of its Service-books and recourse was had to members of the Chapter, as experts in the Rubrick and the Ordinal, by those who were in doubt and perplexity thereabout, in the thirteenth and following centuries. In 1256 Bp Giles de Bridport had maintained' that 'among the churches of the whole world, the Church of Sarum hath shone resplendent, like the sun in his full orb, in respect of its divine service, and its ministers', and after the introduction of printing (to judge from the catalogue of the British Museum) few Churches, if any, had a larger number of 'editions of their service-books printed between the years 1475 and 1558, than this unpretentious city in Wiltshire. That an interest in Sarum Use has not altogether died out in modern times, we may infer from the fact that so many. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.