The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
St Catherine ( - )
References in Documents:MS Book of the dean of Christ Church (MacGregor, ed.) 555 Cama seu Imago S.510 Cameo , or image of St Catherine , carved as if on a tombstone. MacGregor 1983, no. 170
tæCatharinæ lapide quodâ mortuo cælata.
Inventarie of the Gabions, in M. George his Cabinet (1638)
Meane while Saint Catharins Chaplan standing by,
Wringing his eyes and hands, did often cry,S. Catharins
chaplan.
Alace, alace, for this unhappie turn,
I feare for it one day we shall all mourn,
And that by all it shall be plainlie said,
That we blind guides the blinded long have led;
Some Churchmen there, bad pack him heretick,
Else certainelie they should cause burne him quicke,
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This done, friends take their bodies and with mourning
Do carie them towards the town, returning
With heavie hearts, them to this chappell bring,
But no Soule
Yet this good Priest did lay them on the altar,
And all night read the pistle, and the psalter,
With heart devote, and sad; from th'evening vapers,
Placing upon the altar burning tapers
Unto the dawning: exequies thus ended.
Their bodies to the Earth are recommended.
chaplan.
Massenor
Dirigédurst sing.
Inventarie of the Gabions, in M. George his Cabinet (1638) Wringing his eyes and hands, did often cry,S. Catharins
chaplan.
chaplan.