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 further end of this Gallery, containeth the Altar and Tabernacle, which are to be set up in the new Chappel of S. Laurence described above. Having viewed them six several times exactly (as I did) you will perchance be of my opinion, that this Tabernacle made for to keep the Blessed Sacrament in, is able, or, nothing is able, to make amends in some sort, to our Saviour for his course lodging in Bethlehem, when he was born in a stable and lodged in a manger. The crystal pillars curiously wrought, and being a full Ell long, with their Capitelli of pure gold: the four like pictures of pretious stones which were five years, each of them in cutting: the Variety of other pretious stones set thick here and there, and of great size: the neat contexture of other polished stones of several colours and lustre: the pictures of inlaid pretious stones, which compose the Antependium of the Altar: the variety of rich Cameos which are set here and there, add [sic] cut into pictures: in