Over the years, we have published a fair number of articles about the medieval Use of Sarum, which predominated in England before the Reformation, but very little about the other English Uses of the Roman Rite, those of York, Lincoln, Bangor and Hereford. So I was very pleased when I stumbled across this video of a troped Kyrie sung during a liturgy according to the Use of York, celebrated at an Anglo-Catholic parish in that city called All Saints. The text is given in the video in both Latin and English; note that the words ‘Kyrie’ and ‘Christe’ are omitted in all but one of the invocations, which is objectively something of an abuse.
As was pretty generally the custom in the Middle Ages, the servers wears appareled albs. Also note that as the Kyrie begins, the chalice is brought in from the sacristy and filled, after which the altar is incensed. The preparation of the chalice during the first part of the Mass in this fashion was also a very common medieval custom, and is still preserved in the Uses of the Dominican and Calced Carmelite Orders.
