q.o The HIS T 0 RY of the PuRITANS. VoL. n. K Charles I. c< communion-table from the middle qf the chapel to the upper end, and place ~44· " it in form of an altar, clofe to the wall, 7vith the ends north and j outh, ~ " and encompajs it with rails, according to the model of cathedrals. They " objected likewife to his furnijhing the altar in his own chapel, and the " king's at Whitehall, with bajins, candlejlicks, tapers, and other jilver '' vejJels, not ufed in his predecefliJrs time; and to the credentia or fide– ,, table, in conformity to the roman ceremontal, on which the elements " were to be placed on a clean linnen cloth before tho:y were brought to " the altar to be confecrated; and to the hanging over the altar a piece " of arras with a large crucifix.''· . .Abp's anThe archbifhop anfwered, that the placing the communion-table fwer. at the eafl: end of the chancel, was commanded by queen Elizabeth's in. La~~~ Hilt. junCtions, which fay, that the holy table fhall be fet in the pldce where P· · the altar fl:ood, which all who are acquainted with antiquity know, was at the eafl: end of the chancel, with the ends north and fouth, clofe to the wall, and thus they were ufu ally placed both in this and other chur– ches of Chriflendom; the innovation therefore was theirs who departed from the injunctions, and not mine who have kept to them. Befides, altars both name and thing, were in ufe in the primitive chu rches long before popery began; yea they are to be found bmh in the old and new tefiament; and that there can be no popery in railing them in, I have pro– ved in my fpeech in the fiar chamber. However I aver,that I gave no orders nor directions to Sir Nath. Brent my vicar-general, neither by letter nor otherwife, to remove or rail in communion-tables in all pari(h churches; and I defire Sir Nath. may be called to tefiify the truth upon his oath. Prynnc, p• . Sir Nath. being fworn, the archbiiliop afked him upon his oath, whether 8g. he had ever given him fucb orders? To which be replied, my lords, upon the oatb 1 have taken, 1 received an exprefs direClion and commandfrom the ar·chbifoop himje!f to do what I did qf this kind, otherwifi I durjlnever have done it. The archbi(hop in rifling that he never gave him fuch orders; and wondering that he !hould be fo unworthy as to affirm it upon oath, Sir Nath. produced the following letter under the arhcbiiliop's own han d, directed to himfelf at Maidjlone. SIR, "I Require you to command the communion-table at Maicfjlone to be " placed at the eafi, or upper end of the chancel, and there railed in·, " and that the communicants there come up to the rail to receive the blef– " fed facrament ; and the like ;•ou are required to do in all churches, and in. " all other places where you. 'Vijit metropolitically. 2 w. CANT. To
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