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PLATE PAGE chasuble cut away at the arms, but very long, carries paten and large Host to the communicants ; clerk in surplice kneels, holding candle. Altar vested in ample hnen cloth ; two broad and low candlesticks ; chalice of late pattern ; reredos with picture. Bench covered with houseling cloth for the Communion, .... 375 Holy Baptism. (Ibid.) Priest in usual ample siu-plice with full sleeves, and stole with continuous decoration of crosses, pours the water from a vessel ; Clerk in surplice holds the candle, . 375 XV. Confirmation. (^Printed PonMcal, 1520. ) Bishop, seated in front of the altar, wearing cope and mitre, administers confirmation to children who are held up by their godparents ; near him a clerk in surplice kneels to hold the oil ; other clergy in surplice and square cap stand by the altar. One candle on the altar, and reredos behind it, 387 XVI. Confession in Lent. (Brit. Mus. ms. Add., 25698.) Showing the Lenten array in a Flemish church, c. /Y)'2. Rood and attendant figures veiled in white with red crosses ; white dorsal, riddels, and hangings behind altar; the dorsal with red crosses; frontal, frontlet and apparels red with gold fringe (this combination of red frontal with white hangings and veils would be for Passiontide) ; two candlesticks on altar. Priest hearing confession, vested in blue-grey cassock and coif, surplice, cappa nigra, grey almuce on shoulders. The two kneeling men wear a blue lay dress, .... 432