He approached again; and lifting op the cover, peeped into the cup.

Seeing the wine, he let fall the cover, started back, and bowed as before.

Then he received the sacrament, and gave it to others.

And many prayers being said, the solemnity of the consecration ended.

The walls, and floor, and roof of the fabric were then supposed to be sufficiently holy.[*] Orders were given, and rigorously insisted on, that the communion table should be removed from the middle of the area where it hitherto stood in all churches, except in cathedrals.[**] It was placed at the east end, railed in, and denominated an "altar;" as the clergyman who officiated received commonly the appellation of "priest." It is not easy to imagine the discontents excited by this innovation, and the suspicions which it gave rise to.
* Rushworth, vol.ii.p.