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Title: A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published
Year: 1825 (1820s)
Authors: Gostling, William, 1696-1777
Subjects: Canterbury (England) -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Canterbury, W. Blackley (etc.)
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Papists in rich andcurious cases; either for adorning of altars, or tobe laid up in chambers prepared for their recep-tion, where they who are thought worthy to seethem may do it without disturbing the service orthose who attend it. Could the steps before thehigh-altar be then a proper place for exhibitingsuch a show as Erasmus was entertained with ?Or could a cupboard less than a common sedanchair be fit to receive and keep them in any order?Whoever reads the inventories Mr. Dart hasgiven us from the Cotton library, of ornaments,vestments, and jewels committed to the care ofthe sacrist^ and his officers, and his account of 4 Whether the sacrist had or could have a lodging in any of these rooms1 shall not pretend to conjecture ; several of them were built with chimneys,and so is a chamber over the 3;iuth side aisle of the choir, tlie walls ofwhich arc embclliyhed by paintings of flowers, intermixed with scrolls andmotlos, pretty much obliterated; three of tliese had names in them, one
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HEI^Yo 295 the nimilnr ol relics, and the nuignilicciit manneriu wliicli tliey were preserved liere, will easilybelieve that all the rooms I have mentioned werefully furnished, even supposin;^ the old audit-room and the chambers over it to have been apart of this treasury, as in all probabilitythey were; for till the reformation we may be-lieve the chapter business was transacted in thecliapter-house, fitted for a numerous body toiussemble in on such affairs ; but, when theserelics were burnt to ashes, the treasures confis-cated, and the chapter reduced to a dean andtwelve prebendaries; one of these rooms (nowcleared out) was much more convenient and suit-able to that number than the old one, whichwould receive many hundreds of people ; so nowthe chapter is opened there in form, and thenadjourned to the audit-house. What use the oklchapter-house has been since put to, the readerhas seen in Chaj). XXXI. The present audit-house was built about eightyyears ago. Over the door of it is a m

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