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face towardes the people, when he readeth Morning
and Evening Prayer."
The aggregation of the three services of Morning
Prayer, Litany, and Communion was due to Grindal.
He directed that there was to be " no pause or stay "
between these services, which were all to be said
continuously.
Some curious glimpses are afforded of customs
which then prevailed. Fairs and markets were apparently
held on Sundays and holy-days. The practice
was not absolutely forbidden, but he orders that no
wares were to be shown or sold until Morning Service
and sermon were over. No " guisers," or lords of misrule,
were to be allowed to come into the church or
churchyard to dance or play any unseemly part. No
corpse was to be rested at the foot of the town or
village cross on its way to the church for interment.
Parish-clerks were required to be able to read the
first lesson, the psalms, and the epistle, and also the
answers to the suffrages, according to accustomed
use.
A visitation was also held of the Dean and Chapter
of York, and a series of injunctions issued to that
body. They bear date loth Oct., 1572, and, for the
most part, follow the lines of those given by his predecessor
Holgate. The Archbishop makes the reception
of Holy Communion obligator^' upon all the
members of the church of York on certain days specified,
viz., All Saints', Christmas-day, Epiphany,
Purification, Easter-day, and Pentecost, and on the
first Sunday of each month wherein none of these
festivals occur.
But although these days are of obli-