jan 1, 1542 - pyx

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A box or coffer but principally the vessel in which the consecrated bread of the sacrament is reserved. 1490 <i>I bequeath my saltcellar and a silver box for a pyx to be made thereof and for the body of Christ to be placed in the same</i>, Halifax (Crossley204); 1542 <i>to be bestowed of the pix of the hie alter of Otteley vjs viijd</i> (Th19/67).

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