Note 397 — Chapter XIV

Ministers in Edinburgh had a basin and ewer placed in a frame of iron fastened to the pulpit, and there performed the ceremony.—See Travels by Sir W. Brereton, p. 110, published by Cheetham Society. Bishop Wren, in his injunctions, orders that "the fonts at baptism be filled with clean water, and no dishes, pails, nor basins, be used in it, or instead of it."—Cardwell, ii. 204.