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V. Observations upon Shrines; by John Loveday, of Caversham, Esquire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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Dr. Stukeley has accurately distinguished two kinds of shrines, both equally made for receiving the reliques of saints: but with this difference, that one sort was portable, and used in processions; and the other fixed, as being built of stone, marble, and other heavy materials. The former of these were called Feretra, under which word Du Fresne says: “Feretra reliquias sanctorum continentia cum processionibus circumlata non semel legere “est.” And although this sort could only with propriety bear that name, yet was it also given to the immoveable fixed shrines; as to our protomartyr's at St. Alban's, Thomas Becket's at Canterbury, Birinus's at Dorchester, Cuthbert's at Durham, and Edward the Confessor's at Westminster.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1779

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page 23 note [o] Philosoph. Transact. Num. 490, pag. 580.

page 24 note [p] Glossar. Lat.

page 24 note [q] Apparat. ad W. Hemingford, p. 165.

page 24 note [r] Somner's Cant. p. 95. not. e.

page 24 note [s] Tanner, Biblioth. p. 279.

page 24 note [t] Notit. Monast. p. 112. b.

page 24 note [u] Widmore's Hist. of Westm. Abb. p. 235.

page 24 note [x] p. 125.

page 24 note [y] p. 6. 114, 115. 144, 145. 159.

page 24 note [z] Widmore, ubi supra.

page 24 note [*] Hemingford, ubi supra.

page 24 note [†] Pag. 125.

page 24 note [a] Pag. 144, 145.

page 24 note [b] Pag. 76, 77. 115. 148. 161.

page 24 note [c] Ibid. pag. 7. 80.

page 25 note [d] Vetust. Monument. Rer. Britann. Vol. I. Numb. xvi.

page 25 note [e] Matth. Paris, p. 261.

page 25 note [f] L. I. p. xxi.

page 25 note [g] Cantab. Sacr. p. 27. num. xviii.

page 25 note [h] Ancient fun. monum. p. 381.

page 25 note [i] In voce Tabernaculum.

page 25 note [k] Pag. 163.

page 25 note [l] General Worthies of England, p. 8. See also Worthies of Herefordshire, p. 36.

page 26 note [m] Somner's Cantab. p. 130.

page 26 note [n] Battely, ubi supra, and Carte's Hist. Vol. II. p. 358.

page 26 note [o] See his life and gests, p. 267, 268.