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IX. Description of a Carving in the Church of Long Melford. By Craven Ord, Esq. F.A.S. In a Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Leicester, President of the Society of Antiquaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Craven Ord Esq.
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As the ornaments of churches have of late been considered in the different publications of this Society, give me leave to communicate a drawing of a Table (as we find these carvings called in ancient wills) now remaining in the North wall of the church of Melford, in the county of Suffolk, and which a few years ago was dug up from beneath the pavement, where it is not improbable it had lain many years.

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Archaeologia , Volume 12 , 1796 , pp. 93 - 95
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1796

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page 93 note [a] Plate IX.

page 93 note [b] Their names and offerings are mentioned in a charm against the falling sickness.

Jasper fert myrrham, thus Melchior, Balthasar aurum.

Hce tria qui secum portabit nomina regum,

Solvitur a niorbo, Christi pietate, caduco.

page 94 note [c] A drawing of this Table may be seen in Mr. Carter's Specimens of Ancient Sculpture, vol. II. plate 8.

page 94 note [d] Saint Thomas, according to the legend of Antiquity, preached the Gospel in India. At the end of the 9th century, his shrine (perhaps in the neighbourhood of Madras) was devoutly visited by the ambassadors of Alfred. Saint Thomas is said to have suffered martyrdom near that city. There the Portuguese founded an episcopal church under the name of Saint Thomé, and there the saint performed an annual miracle till he was silenced by the profane neighbourhood of the English. See La Croix, torn. ii. p. 7–16.