The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . LibrorumEcclesiae Cathedralis Dunelm. ed. Surtees Soc. 1838, p. 80, a catalogue occurs ofthe Libri pro Refectorio; explained in the sub-title to be intended pro lectura inrefectorio.] 4 [The author of Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England fromRichard II. to Henry VIII., published 1859, mentions (Part 1. p. 71) that a brasseagle remained till recently in Magdalen College hall, Oxford, from which Scripture wasread during meals. When the custom ceased, the piece of furniture was discar
The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . LibrorumEcclesiae Cathedralis Dunelm. ed. Surtees Soc. 1838, p. 80, a catalogue occurs ofthe Libri pro Refectorio; explained in the sub-title to be intended pro lectura inrefectorio.] 4 [The author of Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England fromRichard II. to Henry VIII., published 1859, mentions (Part 1. p. 71) that a brasseagle remained till recently in Magdalen College hall, Oxford, from which Scripture wasread during meals. When the custom ceased, the piece of furniture was discarded.] VOL. III. 24 37o THE HALL. From some of the notices which we have collected it wouldappear to have been a lectern such as is used in churches, andoccasionally to have been raised on a half-pace, and to have hadthe book for the readers use attached to it by a chain1. Thedesk which was used at Eton, at least in later times, still exists(fig. i). It is a plain frame of hammered iron fastened to thewestern jamb of the oriel, so that the reader might have his faceturned towards the Fig. i. Desk for the Bible-Reader in the Hall of Eton College. The warming of the hall, whether effected by brazier or byfire-place, was evidently insufficient ; for the stone floor wasstrewn with rushes in earlier times, as is frequently mentioned 1 [Kings College Mundum-Book, 1573-74 Exp- neccss. Item for a cheyne to thedeske in the hall, xd.] 2 [In the sixteenth century a lectern raised on steps seems to have been in use:Accounts, 1568—69. Exp. ncccss. for makynge ij. hnlfe paces in the hawle for thebybeler to stand upon.] PLAYS IN HALL. 371 in the Accounts of Kings Hall, and towards the end of the lastcentury, at least in Trinity College, with sawdust. It was laidon the floor at the beginning of winter, and turned over with arake as often as the upper surface became dirty ; finally, whenwarm weather set in, it was removed, the colour of charcoal1. The hall was used for other purp
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