St. John's Altar

[Blue70]

Does anyone know what St. John's Altar was as mentioned in this extract dating from Liverpool of the 1500s? I'm interested because of my research into the origins of St. Patrick's Cross:-

- that carts should pay fourpence a year each towards mending the roads, and that country carts should not ply in the town;
- that the burgesses should wait upon the mayor whenever commanded to do so, in the business of the town or of the Church;
- that corn should not be sold before the market bell rang, and that country persons should not buy any until an hour after;
- that all the inhabitants should join the mayor, bailiffs and aldermen, in public procession round the borough on St. John's or midsummers eve;
- that a priest should say Mass at St. John's Altar, between five and six o'clock every morning so that labourers might be able to attend before they went to their work;

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[MaryA]

The old-liverpool site has a mention - http://www.old-liverpool.co.uk/churches.html I would think it logical to be connected with St Nicholas and the right date too.

[Blue70]

Thanks Mary I think you're right it will have been in St. Nicholas church.

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