The ornaments rubrick Author:James Parker Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: aforesaid, a Chalice, a Fix, and a Chrismatory of silver; the true value thereof we neither know nor can learn. "Item, the Churchwardens of Kelshall say that ... more »about six years past there was a Chalice embezzled out of the Church aforesaid, and they say they suspect Mr. Todde, who was then Parson there, and now Chaplain to the King's Majesty ; and one Robert Fordhouse, then Clerk there; the value thereof we, the said Commissioners, know not. " Item, Richard Songar, gentleman, late of Stocking Pelham, and now dwelling in Essex, did embezzle away from said Church of Pelham, a Chalice of silver; the value thereof we know not." There is much more in the same strain. We find lists of goods " sold by common assent of the inhabitants of the parishes in the county aforesaid." Of course, all such must be considered as so many additions to the list of the Church Ornaments which were existing in 1552, when we form an estimate of those which existed in 1549. We find also a list of "goods which were embezzled but now received into the hands of us Commissioners :" in other words, stolen goods which had been traced by means of the enquiries, and so restored. It may be added that the Commission having been issued in May, 1552, and the Inventories themselves taken between August and December of the same year, this Return of the Commissioners is dated March, in the ;th year of Edward VI., i.e. 1553. CAP. XI. Inventories Taken or Ornaments Of The Ministers Remaining In 1552. We posess in the Record Office a tolerably complete series of the Inventories taken in many of the counties of the goods found in the churches in 1552; and if we analyse the 135 Inventories which appear in this Hertfordshire series, we find the following results respecting the " Ornaments of the Minister." T...« less