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THE USE OF YORK. 297
Sarum rite. In one or two cases it met with sonicthing
hke animadversion. The church of Layerthorpe,
a suburb of York, was returned as possessing
a missal, but it is stated at the same time 7ion est de
usic Ebor. In the Minster itself the altar of St. John
of Beverley was reported as being duly furnished
with its missal, sed est i/isiifficiois, ijuia 71011 de iisu.
Many legacies occur, however, of Sarum rituals of
one sort or other, bequeathed to different churches.
Uiuim Missale dc itsu Sarum is left to the high altar
of the church of Easington, and a similar bequest,
together with a processional, a manual, and a gradale,
each of like use, is made to the parish church
of Gedling in Nottinghamshire, which then formed
part of the diocese. Archbishop Rotherham seems
to have regarded the Use as a matter of indifference.
He gave two missals to his college at Rotherham
one of York, the other of Sarum Use.
It would obviously occupy too much space in a
work like the present to enter into a detailed examination
of the diversities of the York Use, some of
them minute and of no great significance. It may
be sufficient to point out some of its peculiarities
\vhich have been thought worthy of notice by Archdeacon
Freeman. The Sarum Use begins with the
hymn, Veni Creator. The York ritual defers it till
the oblation. The word officium is used for introit.
The elements were brought in after the introit, being
received by the acolyte and placed by him upon the
altar, when the corporal was spread ;
differing widely
from the Roman Use, which directs the celebrant
himself to place all on the altar at the very first, the