" A Puritanical writer in 1635 thus mentions the changed position of the Communion Table, which had formerly stood away from the east wall: "The Communion Table was altered which cost a great deal of money; and that which is worst of all, three stepps made to go to the Comm'n Table altar fashionGod grant it continueth not long."

wait till I tell you to," (addressed to the undertaker, who was anticipating the proper place in the service,)"'and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow,'Please to hold the umbrella a little further over my head," (sotto voce to the man who was endeavoring to protect his head from the sun,)-"'and never continueth in one stay.