Percy Dearmer, author of The Parson's Handbook, states that English use supports no more than two lights on the altar.
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The use of a row of six candlesticks on the altar, or on a shelf or gradine behind it, is pure Romanism, and a defiance of the Ornaments Rubric, as of all other authority in the Church of England.
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