In primis for v grete stones xvis viijd. Item for xx/iiij & vj stones prece viijd apeece to the frontes lvijs iiijd. Item for xxj stones sett in golde, weyng di. vnces xiijs iiijd. Item for xl medyll stones, prece vjd a stone xxs. Item for xx/iij & xv smale stones prece iiijd a stone, to garnesshe xxvs. Item for iij vnces & a quarter of fyne peerll, at iij li. the vnce iij[84] li xvs. Item for xij vnces of medull peerll, at xs the vnce vj li. Item the selver warke weys, in all xx/iiij xiij vnces, which is with the fassheon & all xiiij li xvjs. Item to the broderar vj wokes (? _wekes_) xijd a day, besydes mete & dryncke xxxvjs. Item payd for lynnen cloth to cowech ytt on with perll vijd. Item for sylke to thred the seid perll & steche the peerll j vnce & di xvd. Item for yalow thred jd. Item for Rybande of iiijd brede ij yeards viijd. Item for Reband of ijd brede A yearde ijd. Item for Rownde selk about the bordure jd. ob. Item for red selke to sow hytt with all, di. quarter the vnce ijd ob. Item for past iiijd. (Item) for a quarter of sarcenett to lyne hytt xiiijd. Item for a case to the mytur of lethur iiijs. Summa xlixli. xvs. the coste of the mytur.' Before parting with the ancient vestments of the Western Church, let us spend a few moments on another, and to the antiquary a melancholy, subject, namely, the fate which has befallen them. The number of actual vestments which survive to our own day is comparatively small. Notwithstanding the scrupulous care with which they were kept, the action of time and probably of moths could not but destroy the perishable material of which they were made; and as so sacred were they regarded that when a vestment was worn out it was burnt, and the ashes thrown into and washed down the drain of the piscina, or font; so, at least, it was ordered by the ninth canon of the Synod of Dublin, 1186.[85] In France and in England, however, far the greatest havoc was wrought in the religious and political troubles of the eighteenth century in the former case, of the two centuries preceding in the latter.