could frost and snow, and the fore named 4 men went to Lever and found my Lo. was not well yet.
In the afternoone the sune shining forth, he got on horse and came with us with his retinew and no sooner looked up at the Foxriding gate but with an asavaration he saide it was a faire and Butifull House; we brought him to your house and into your chamber which Martha had deckt up and their was provided some modium (modicum) of wine and Banketing stuff, but my Lord, having been troubled with a loosness the night before, would not drink; only put upp some sugar cake or such like, but I warrant you nothing was left. So then putting on his Surplice, hood or banner habit, and all his Robes, he went to the chappel gate, which was sett oppen, and there my Uncle Fox in my Lo. Darby's name and your Cosin Nathan in your name, by a writing then read, did surrender up both soyle and building to the BB by him to be dedicated and consecrated for the service of Almighty God, and then they came forth [and] the B. entered taking a kind of p'session and sessin [seizin] for that use by such like words: I do accept of this surrender and have entered. And then the great South Chappel Dooer being opened my Lo: stood before it [and] with an awdible voyce prayed in sentences gathered forth of the Psalms and other Scriptures for the Blessing of the Lord upon them that had done that pyous work and all those who had been helpers and furtherers of it, and cursses, [and] exeecrations, upon those that should deface those buildings or diminish those giftes given to that pious use; and then entering the Chappel he shut the Dooer, and after a while oppened it and bad come in, and then going into the Reading Desk he read Evening Prayers with certen celected psalms and chapters, as the 84 ye 122 ye 132 psalm, the 2 of Chro: 6, and Math: 22, and then read the Letanie with divers addisions for the occation, and then going to the Great Chancell window he sat down and read the deed of consecration in Latin wherein he hath named the Chappel De Sanctitate Domine,[1] as I understand it; so soone as we have it you shall have a copy of that too; and when he had read this, then saying let us pray, and kneeling downe at the upper end[2] of the table with his
- ↑ This was probably an error of the writer. The words he heard probably were "de Sancto Salvatore," as the Chapel was dedicated to the Holy Saviour.
- ↑ At this time the Holy Table was probably standing East and West in the Chancel. The next year (1635) archbishop Laud, at a visitation, ordered it to be placed altarwise.
