. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . f its ornaments:to which he adds, that when this glorious showwas offered to view the prior took a white wandand touched every jewel, telling what it was, theFrench name, the value, and the donor of it; forthe chief of them were the gifts of monarchs, orpersons of distinguished rank or fortune. If vanity was mixed with the superstition ofthose days, this was a sure way of increasingthe number and value of new decorations to theshrine, such as might do honour to future be
. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . f its ornaments:to which he adds, that when this glorious showwas offered to view the prior took a white wandand touched every jewel, telling what it was, theFrench name, the value, and the donor of it; forthe chief of them were the gifts of monarchs, orpersons of distinguished rank or fortune. If vanity was mixed with the superstition ofthose days, this was a sure way of increasingthe number and value of new decorations to theshrine, such as might do honour to future bene-factors, were their station ever so highly rich presents were continually flow-ing in: but then there were sometimes springtides, called jubilees; these were higli festivalswhich the monks could not celebrate withoutexpress licence from the court of Rome. The word jubilee signifies a solemn jews were commanded to keep a feast untothe Lord once in about fifty years ; in wliich theirdependance on him for all the good things of thislife, and his riglit to direct them in tlie proper use. 283 of such plenty of those blessings as he shouldbestow on them, were to be gratefully and pub-licly acknowledged, by relieving the necessities oftheir poor brethren, by releasing bondsmen andde})tors from their obligations, and such other actsof bounty and beneficence as are particularlyenumerated in the XXVth chapter of Leviticus. A))out the year 1300 Pope Boniface that an improvement on this might be madeby })roclaiming a general release from the burthenof their sins, out of what Rome calls the treasureof the church, to all who should properly applyfor the plenary indulgences granted at such times ;and by appropriating the money raised by suchindulgences toward increasing the treasures of thechurch, in the more common and literal accepta-tion of the words. The experiment answered so well, that Jubileeswere to be repeated; but to add to the solemni
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