Note 204 — Chapter IX
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The use in some cases of parochial edifices for church-meetings could hardly be considered an exception to this rule. In the Canterbury Church Book this passage occurs:—"The 5th day of the fifth month, this day the Church did unanimously agree to break bread in the Sermon-house, and ordered that henceforth it should be there."—Timpson's Church Hist. of Kent, 307.
The Sermon-house was in the crypt where Henry II. did penance after the assassination of Thomas à Becket. It was granted to the French and Flemish refugees by Elizabeth, in 1561. It is still used for French worship. The long table is that at which the worshippers sit to receive the Sacrament.