jan 1, 1558 - corporas

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A cloth, of linen, velvet or other material, on which the consecrated elements were placed during the celebration of mass, and which was then used as a cover. They were usually conserved in a case. 1498 <i>Item iiij corporaxez with casez belonging therto, price ijs</i>, Wakefield (YAJ15/93); 1524 <i>Item vj corporaxis with casys</i>, Sheriff Hutton (YAJ36/179); 1558 <i>one corporax case wrought with silke and gold and the corporax within it</i>, York (PTD142). An inventory of goods in St William’s Chapel on Ouse Bridge, York, lists eight richly varied <i>corporaxes</i>, including those of <i>tawne velvet ... clothe of gold sett with perle ... tawne damaske ... blew silke ... </i>and <i>burd alexander</i>. More decorative were one <i>sett with dyvers lords armes in yt</i>, one <i>with castels of gold and ij lyons</i>, and finally one <i>with dyvers fac</i>[e]<i>s with nedill wark</i> (YRS106/29). The spelling could vary: 1544 <i>one keircheyff to make one corperage wythall</i>, Timble (SS104/42).

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