20. BRASS OF ROBERT BRASSIE, KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE 150 21. CHRYSOME CHILD. (_Haines_) 172 22. A COPE-CHEST, YORK MINSTER. (_Archæological Association Journal_) 173 23. ARMENIAN PRIEST. (_Fortescue_) 177 24. MALABAR PRIEST. (_Howard_) 178 25-28. ILLUSTRATIONS OF ECCLESIASTICS OF THE EASTERN CHURCH. (_King_) 179-185 29. A SYNOD MEETING OF THE REFORMED CHURCH OF FRANCE. (_Quick_) 205 30. DEACON IN FOLDED CHASUBLE, WELLS CATHEDRAL. (_Archæologia_) 216 [Illustration] ERRATA. Page 47, line 2, _for_ maniple _read_ mappula. Page 63, line 2, _for_ Walfrid _read_ Walafrid. Page 74, line 1 of footnote, _for_ Goodrich _read_ Goodrick. Page 77, line 3 of footnote, _for_ Whittlesford read Milton. Page 106, last line, _for_ succinctorium _read_ subcingulum (also called 'succinctorium'). Page 110, line 13, _for_ bishops _read_ ecclesiastics. [Illustration] _ECCLESIASTICAL VESTMENTS._ CHAPTER I. THE GENESIS OF ECCLESIASTICAL VESTMENTS. The study of ecclesiastical history or antiquities can be pursued from either of two standpoints. We may take into account those essentially religious or theological elements which distinguish this subject from all other branches of antiquarian science, and keep them prominently before us during our investigations; or else, disregarding those elements more or less completely, we may consider the subject wholly from the point of view of the antiquary. As a general rule, those investigators who lay stress on the _ecclesiastical_ rather than on the _antiquarian_ side of ecclesiology and its various subdivisions have been attracted to the study not so much by the intrinsic interest which, in some degree, every branch of archæology possesses, as by the wish to settle controversial questions relating to Church doctrine, usage, or discipline. This is especially true of the important section of ecclesiology with which these pages are concerned. There are two schools into which the students of Church vestments may be divided—the ritualistic and the antiquarian. Each strives to attain full knowledge of the subject, and the means employed by both schools are the same—the evidence drawn from a patient comparison of the works of authors and artists of successive periods. But while those of the purely antiquarian school regard the knowledge thus gained as in itself the chief end of their researches, those of the other consider it rather as a stepping-stone, leading to proofs of the Divine appointment of the use of vestments, and indicating regulations to govern the usage of vestments in the modern Church.