¹ Seats, usually made of stone, often found in the chancel on the south side of the altar, to be used by the priest, deacon and sub-deacon at Mass.

² On the role of custom in the ecclesiastical law of the Church of England, see Hill, M, Ecclesiastical Law, 4th edn (Oxford, 2018)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, paras 1.37–1.38.

³ R Hooker, Ecclesiastical Polity, V.xii.1.

⁴ Ibid, V. xii.2.

⁵ Of the receiving of Holy Communion. Canon B15 para 2 provides that ‘[t]he minister shall teach the people from time to time, and especially before the festivals of Christmas, Easter and Whitsun or Pentecost, that they come to this holy sacrament with such preparation as is required by The Book of Common Prayer’.

⁶ Which concerns ‘Of notorious offenders not to be admitted to Holy Communion’ and makes detailed provision as to what steps the minister must take if he is persuaded that anyone of his cure ought not to be admitted to Holy Communion ‘by reason of malice and open contention with his neighbours, or other grave and open sin without repentance’.

⁷ Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis, I.v.

⁸ Dix, G, The Shape of the Liturgy (London, 1945), Google Scholar.

⁹ Quoted in Fagerberg, D, Consecrating the World: On Mundane Liturgical Theology (Brooklyn, NY, 2016), Google Scholar.

¹⁰ Temple, W, Nature, Man and God (London, 1935), Google Scholar.

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¹² Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol VI (London, 1993).