Note 1210 — Chapter XV · THE BOY BISHOP
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Rituale (fourteenth century) of Tours in Martene, iii. 39. There was a cantor puerorum as well as the episcopus. At second Vespers ‘quando Magnificat canitur, veniunt clericuli in choro cum episcopo habentes candelas accensas de proprio et quando Deposuit canitur, accipit cantor puerorum baculum, et tunc in stallo ascendunt pueri, et alii descendunt.’