Lights on the Altar

I would refer your correspondent D. Sholbus (Vol. ii., p. 495.) to one of the Canons published under King Edgar, about the year 968. Lambard's Latin version of the ordinance is as follows:— "Semper in ecclesia lumen ardeat dum Missa decantetur." (Ἀρχαιονομία, ed. Wheloc. p. 70. Cantab. 1644. Compare Cressy's *Church History of Brittany*, p. 870. A.D. 1668.)