The schools of medieval England . Dean Kitchin has beenable to show that the so-called Norman font in WinchesterCathedral, on which his story is carved, was only one of adozen others all representing the same story, and all turned outfrom the same factory near Tournay. Some of the earliest plays,written in the twelfth century, are founded on the incidents inhis career. He came in handy for the boys holidays, while theplays instituted under his auspices outlasted his own memory. Though elected on St. Nicholas Eve, the boy-bishop didnot officiate, after St. Nicholas Day, till after Christmas. On
The schools of medieval England . Dean Kitchin has beenable to show that the so-called Norman font in WinchesterCathedral, on which his story is carved, was only one of adozen others all representing the same story, and all turned outfrom the same factory near Tournay. Some of the earliest plays,written in the twelfth century, are founded on the incidents inhis career. He came in handy for the boys holidays, while theplays instituted under his auspices outlasted his own memory. Though elected on St. Nicholas Eve, the boy-bishop didnot officiate, after St. Nicholas Day, till after Christmas. Onthe evening of St. Johns Day at vespers at the words in theMagnificat, He hath put down the mighty from their seat,and hath exalted the humble and meek —Deposuit potentes,as it was shortly called—the bishop or dean (at WinchesterCollege no doubt the warden) descended from his stall, whichwas at once occupied by the boy-bishop in full pontificals,while his dean, archdeacons, and other dignitaries, and canons, Killed (?) a SKAL OF ST. XICHO).\S CILD ANTJ (.,, I-M4 SCHOOLS FROM LANFRANC TO BECKET 149 all boys, attired in the characters of those they represented,were exalted to the upper stalls. In the procession, theusual order was reversed. The canons went first, the boys,with the boy-bishop last, brought up the rear. At it had been the custom for the boy-bishop to appointthe real dignitaries and canons as candle-holders and incense-bearers, and to perform the other tasks usually done bychoristers, acolytes or clerks. In 1263 this was forbidden, andthose of the second or third form, real acolytes or clerks,were to be selected for these offices. But at Salisbury theProcessional, even up to the sixteenth century, prescribed that,for the procession, the boys were to write on the table of the daythe names of the canons to minister, the greater to be incense-bearers and book-bearers, and the lesser to carry the copes and v
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