Note 139 — THE CHANCEL
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"Cancellæ are lattice-work, by which the chancels being formerly parted from the body of the church they took their names from thence. Hence, too, the Court of Chancery and the Lord Chancellor borrowed their names, that court being enclosed with open-work of that kind. And so to cancel a writing is to cross it out with the pen, which naturally makes something like the figure of a lattice."—Pegge's Anonymiana.