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Page 22 - May, 1662, Michael Mallett and Wm. Ayloff were ordered to deliver all such documents to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who was desired to take care for the preservation thereof, and to dispose of the same to the respective Bishops and Deans and Chapters who are therein concerned if he thought fit.
Page xxiv - The employment of copper to produce a brilliant blue coloured enamel was very early, both in Babylonia and Assyria ; but the use of tin for a white enamel, as recently discovered in the enamelled bricks and vases of Babylonia and Assyria, anticipated, by many centuries, the re-discovery of that process in Europe in the fifteenth century, and shows the early application of metallic oxides. This invention apparently remained for many centuries a secret among the eastern...
Page xxiv - ... only, enamelled terra-cotta and glass forming articles of commercial export from Egypt and Phoenicia to every part of the Mediterranean. Among the Egyptians and Assyrians enamelling was used more frequently than glazing, and their works are consequently a kind of fayence, consisting of a loose frit or body, to which an enamel adheres, after only a slight fusion.
Page v - The Society was formed in 1892 to study and preserve the antiquities of the East Riding of the County of York. It has already done important work, making extensive excavations at Watton Priory, a Gilbertine house, near Driffield ; and has also taken part in excavations at Warter Priory, near Pocklington.
Page 79 - ... 77 persons, viz. : — 1 Provost. 9 Canons or Prebendaries, including the Archbishop. 3 Dignitaries or Officers (Precentor, Sacrist, Chancellor). 7 Parsons. 9 Vicars Choral. 15 Chantry Priests. *2 Subordinate Officers (Master of the Works, Chamberlain) . 17 Clerks called Clerks of the Second Form. 4 Sacristans or Sextons. 2 Incense Bearers. 8 Choristers. 77 Of course these numbers were nothing like those of York Minster, with its 36 Canons, 36 Vicars Choral, over 30 Chantry Priests, and a proportionate...