Notes & Queries Archive
REPLY1850

Scala Coeli

By H. W.

In Foxe's *Acts and Mon.*, vol. v. p. 364., Lond. 1838, your Querist may see a copy of a grant from Pope Clement VII. in 1526, to the brethren of a Boston guild, assuring them that any member thereof who should enter the Lady Chapel in St. Botolph's Church, Boston, once a quarter, and say there "a Paternoster, Ave Maria, and Creed, shall have the full remission due to them that visit the Chapel of Scala Scoeli."

Topics: Religious Practices, Historical Customs

Locations: Boston, St. Botolph's Church