Ecclesiastical Vestments: Their development and historyMacalister, Robert Alexander Stewart
History
Ecclesiastical Vestments: Their development and history
Macalister, Robert Alexander Stewart
Church vestments
'In sepultura puerorum viij. Et in reparacione vestimentorum, xiiij. Et
liberantur pro manutergiis inde fiendis, ordinatis pro expensis
ecclesiae, ix. Et liberantur pro calicibus involvendis et aliis
necessariis ejusdem ecclesiae, vj. Summa xxxvij. Et reman. cccᵐᵃlij
vestes crismales.'[87]
[76] This word is a curious hybrid. The _muce_ is the Teutonic for a
cap or hood (_cf._ Scottish _mutch_, German _Mütze_). The word
_mozetta_ is connected with this. The _al_ is the Arabic article,
probably attached to it at some time in Spain.
[77] Both objectionable terms, as they lead to confusion with the
_amice_, the sound of all these words being practically
indistinguishable.
[78] Rock.
[79] For example, the lamb (besides its more sacred significance) may
possibly be taken as symbolical of St Agnes, the dragon of St George or
St Margaret, the lion of St Jerome, the lily, sun, moon, stars, or rose
of St Mary the Virgin, and so on indefinitely.
[80] Examples of an entire name occurring on copes are extremely rare.
I only know of one—the brass of Thomas Patesley (1418), at Great
Shelford, Cambridgeshire. Initials are common in almost every county;
_rebuses_ not quite so common, though we have the famous _maple_-leaves
(alternating with _M_'s) in the cope of a priest called Mapleton, as
shown on his brass at Broadwater, Sussex; while heraldic devices are
fairly frequent, either as complete shields or selections from the
charges borne by the priest's family. The brasses of Wm. de Fulbourne,
at Fulbourne, Cambridgeshire, and of Thos. Aileward, at Havant,
Hampshire, give us examples of both these methods of ornamentation.
[81] Eisdemque diebus dominus papa videns in aliquorum Anglicorum
ornamentis ecclesiasticis, utpote in capis choralibus et infulis
aurifrisia concupiscibilia, interrogavit ubinam facta puissent. Cui
responsum est In Anglia. At ipse, Vere hortus noster deliciarum est
Anglia; vere puteus inexhaustus est; et ubi multa abundant de multis
multa possunt extorqueri. Unde idem dominus papa concupiscentia
illectus oculorum literas suas bullatas sacras misit ad omnes fere
Cisterciensis ordinis abbates in Anglia commorantes quorum orationibus
se nuper in capitulo Cisterciensi commendaverat ut ipsi aurifrisia ac
si pro nihilo ipsa possent adquirere mittere non different pracelecta
ad planetas et capas suas chorales adomandas. Quod mercennariis
Londoniae qui ea venalia habebant non displicuit, ad placitum
vendentibus: unde multi manifestum avaritiam Romanae ecclesiae
detestabantur.—M. Paris, 'Chronica Majora' (Rolls Series), vol. iv, p.
546.
[82] 'Issues of the Exchequer' (ed. Dover), p. 16.
[83] Quoted in the _Builder_, 7 July 1894.
[84] _Sic._, should be viiij or ix.
[85] Worn-out vestments were also found useful for the interment of
ecclesiastics, as we have seen, supra p. 101.
[86] There is an error of twenty somewhere in this calculation.
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