. The records of St. Bartholomew's priory and of the church and parish of St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield . tionfor the tomb of a founder or of a great benefactor of a church ;thereby it could have the honour of being used as an Easter sepulchrewhereon the Blessed Sacrament was placed from Holy Thursday tillEaster Eve. When there was an effigy on the tomb, as here, a woodensepulchre was placed before it to be used in the same way. Whilst the work of the first restoration was in progress in June1866 the tomb was surreptitiously opened at the back and the remainsof Rahere with sandals
. The records of St. Bartholomew's priory and of the church and parish of St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield . tionfor the tomb of a founder or of a great benefactor of a church ;thereby it could have the honour of being used as an Easter sepulchrewhereon the Blessed Sacrament was placed from Holy Thursday tillEaster Eve. When there was an effigy on the tomb, as here, a woodensepulchre was placed before it to be used in the same way. Whilst the work of the first restoration was in progress in June1866 the tomb was surreptitiously opened at the back and the remainsof Rahere with sandals on the feet were exposed to view in a woodencoffin. A portion of a sandal, and a small piece of the coffin, wereabstracted and hidden. Twenty-four years later, in November 1890,by the aid of a freemason,9 to whose craft sacrilege is particularly 1 Book of Found., Lib. I, cap. xvii ; Lib. II, cap. iii. 2 Lib. I, cap. xxvii. 3 lb., Lib. I, cap. lb., Lib. II, cap. xviii. 5 lb., Lib. II, cap. v. 6 lb., Lib. II, cap. xxviii 7 lb., Lib. II, cap. vi. 8 App. I, p. 385. 9 The late Mr. Henry Heard. ILATK III.
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