. Studies in the history and method of science. a prayer-desk before the altar kneels theQueen ; before her is an open book, and on either side two goldenbasins containing cramp-rings. Leaves 2 to 10 contain certaynprayos to be vsed by the quenes heighnes in the consecration ofthe crampe ryngs . A study of the rubrics, which are in English,suffices to show the essentials for the consecration of the rings :the prayers, the royal touch, the holy water. . The recto ofleaf 11 is filled with an illumination of the Crucifixion with St. Maryand St. John. In the border are the instruments of the Passi
. Studies in the history and method of science. a prayer-desk before the altar kneels theQueen ; before her is an open book, and on either side two goldenbasins containing cramp-rings. Leaves 2 to 10 contain certaynprayos to be vsed by the quenes heighnes in the consecration ofthe crampe ryngs . A study of the rubrics, which are in English,suffices to show the essentials for the consecration of the rings :the prayers, the royal touch, the holy water. . The recto ofleaf 11 is filled with an illumination of the Crucifixion with St. Maryand St. John. In the border are the instruments of the Passion—the spear, the reed and sponge, the hammer and pincers, three nails,two scourges, and (a very unusual addition) a centre-bit of the sameform as that now in use. On the verso of this leaf is a very interest-ing full-page illumination. At a prayer-desk, on which is an openbook, kneels the Queen, turning to the right (the dexter side of thepicture), wearing the head-dress familiar to us in all her portraits. ^ Series i, vol. ii, p. Plate XL. QUEEN MARY TUDORBLESSING CRAMP-RINGSFrom QUEEN MARYS MS. MANUAL fo. ivLibrary of the Roman Catholic Cathedralat WESTMINSTER 178 d THE BLESSING OF CRAMP-RINGS 179 Before her kneels a sufferer, apparently a young man, whose bareand swollen neck the Queen holds between her two hands. Behmdhim, holding open the collar of the patients coat, kneels the clarke of the closett in a cassock and gown, and with a tonsuredhead. On the left of the prayer-desk stands the chaplen, a bald-headed, venerable man in a long cassock, a somewhat short surpUcewith full sleeves, and the stole abowte his neck ordered in therubric, reading the appointed office. The Queen wears a browndress cut square at the neck, white sleeves,and a lace ruff and waist-bands. The office for the healing follows, commencing on folio 12a,and ending on folio 19a. The rubrics are in red ink, bright and fresh; and each page hasa rich border of scrolls, leaves, flowers, and fruit, w
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