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GLASTONBURY ABBEY.
the legs of each, to place on the tombs for the devotion of the
people, with an infcription commemorating thefe fadts. Both
our great Edwards vifited Glaftonbury. Edward HE, with
his queen Philippa, in 1331, came with a princely train, and on
leaving prefented the abbey ;P8o, and four filver cups, one very
magnificent, and an emboffed water jug alfo of filver.
As for facred relics collected at Glaftonbury, their mere
catalogue would make a little book. They included almoft
everything in facred hiftory.—Fragments from the tomb of
Rachel; the altar of Mofes ; the rod of Mofes ; the manna of
the children of Ifrael; the fepulchres of Ifaiah and Daniel; the
remains of the three men in the fiery furnace, of the fwaddling-
clothes of our Saviour ; two portions of the very manger in
which he lay; the ftone from Jordan on which Chrift flood to
be baptized ; one of the flones offered by the devil when he
defired Chrift to command the ftones to be made bread; one
of the water-jars in which our Lord turned the water into
wine; a piece of the bread with which he fed the five thou-
fand ; a piece of the ftone on which he flood in the temple, of
his garment without a feam, of the robe that Herod put upon
him, of the fcourge with which he was fcourged, of the table
at which he fupped with his difciples, of the fponge offered to
him with vinegar, of the crofs, the fepulchre, of the hole in
which the crofs flood ; one of the thorns from his crown ; the
ftone from which he afcended into heaven, and of every other
imaginable thing connected with his hiftory. And the fame of
the Virgin Mary, of the apoftles, of John the Baptift and all
the martyrs, the faints by hundreds, and holy virgins by
dozens. The lift of thefe relics by John of Glaftonbury fills
feventeen clofely-printed odlavo pages.
What a pile of mendacious rubbifh with which to gull the
fimple fouls of thofe dark times ! Thefe were the baits with
GLASTONBURY ABBEY.
the legs of each, to place on the tombs for the devotion of the
people, with an infcription commemorating thefe fadts. Both
our great Edwards vifited Glaftonbury. Edward HE, with
his queen Philippa, in 1331, came with a princely train, and on
leaving prefented the abbey ;P8o, and four filver cups, one very
magnificent, and an emboffed water jug alfo of filver.
As for facred relics collected at Glaftonbury, their mere
catalogue would make a little book. They included almoft
everything in facred hiftory.—Fragments from the tomb of
Rachel; the altar of Mofes ; the rod of Mofes ; the manna of
the children of Ifrael; the fepulchres of Ifaiah and Daniel; the
remains of the three men in the fiery furnace, of the fwaddling-
clothes of our Saviour ; two portions of the very manger in
which he lay; the ftone from Jordan on which Chrift flood to
be baptized ; one of the flones offered by the devil when he
defired Chrift to command the ftones to be made bread; one
of the water-jars in which our Lord turned the water into
wine; a piece of the bread with which he fed the five thou-
fand ; a piece of the ftone on which he flood in the temple, of
his garment without a feam, of the robe that Herod put upon
him, of the fcourge with which he was fcourged, of the table
at which he fupped with his difciples, of the fponge offered to
him with vinegar, of the crofs, the fepulchre, of the hole in
which the crofs flood ; one of the thorns from his crown ; the
ftone from which he afcended into heaven, and of every other
imaginable thing connected with his hiftory. And the fame of
the Virgin Mary, of the apoftles, of John the Baptift and all
the martyrs, the faints by hundreds, and holy virgins by
dozens. The lift of thefe relics by John of Glaftonbury fills
feventeen clofely-printed odlavo pages.
What a pile of mendacious rubbifh with which to gull the
fimple fouls of thofe dark times ! Thefe were the baits with