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THE YORK USE.
of great antiquity, that of Egbert, Archbishop of
York, the MS. of which is preserved in the library of
Paris. Egbert's pontifical is rich in benedictions,
many of which are of great beauty. The other is
that of Cardinal Bainbrigg. But although they
belonged to Archbishops of York, neither of them
can be designated as peculiarly a York Use, except as
regards the insertion, for convenience sake, of offices
more properly belonging to the missal or ihe manual.
It is obvious that these would be of the use of the
diocese. Diversities are found to exist, in several
particulars, from the Ordo lioinanus:, but this is the
case, less or more, with all the known pontificals,
whether of English or Scotch Use.
We take our leave here of the stately services
which, for centuries, had accompanied the celebration
of the Holy Eucharist within the glorious choir of the
Minster of York, and the daily recitation of the offices
for the different hours by the canons and their vicars.
It is difficult to form an adequate idea of the splendour
which
must have characterised the former on days of
high solemnity, when the Archbi.shop was received in
state at the great western entrance by the Dean and as
many members of the Metropolitical Church as could
be gathered together, and conducted in solemn procession
to the high altar, there to celebrate the pontifical
mass ; but we may gather some notion of the
magnificence of such functions when we read in an
inventory which was compiled soon after the year
1500, of the jewelled mitres, the processional crosses,
and the extraordinarynumberof embroidered copesand
vestments of costly material and varied hues which were
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