Note 270 — Chapter XI

Evelyn. 1684, March 30.

In Sancroft’s form of “Dedication and Consecration of a Church or Chapel, 1685,” this direction is found:—“So likewise, when a censer is presented and received, they say, ‘While the King sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof,’” &c. In the MS. Life of Ashmole, Ashmole Museum, Oxford, he says—1675, Jan. 6—“I wore the chain of gold sent me from the King of Denmark before the King in his proceeding to the chapel to offer gold, frankincense, and myrrh.”