to be expected of the great churches endowed and furnished by princes, nobles, and rich merchants? [Illustration: EMBROIDERY OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY, SUPPOSED TO BE PART OF A FRONTAL OR ANTEPENDIUM Engraved from the original.] The following is a list of the treasures belonging to the Church of St. Laurence Jewry:— “Five great bells and two small bells. One auter cloth with a nether part and a border of whit damaske imbrodered upon the same flowers and imags. One payer of certens of whit sarcenet with frenges. One awter cloth with a nether part and a border of cloth of golde. One payer of certens of sylke stayned. One auter cloth with a nether part and a border of red velvet with koges and one payer of sylk certyns stayned. One nether part of an awter cloth and a border of satten with flowers wrought upon the same and one payer certyns of sarcenet. [Illustration: ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY PREACHING ON BEHALF OF HENRY, DUKE OF LANCASTER Harl. MS. 1319, page 12.] One awter cloth with a nether part and a border of damaske and one payer of certyns of sylk. One cope of cloth of gold the grownde beeinge red. One cope of cloth of gold the grownde beeinge blew. One cope with a vestment of whit damaske wroght upon red flowers of golde and fflanmells pertayninge to the same. One cope with a vestment of koges and fflamels to the same. One cope of red velvet imbrodered with buds and cards of golde. One cope of blew velvet imbrodered with golde and images and also One vestment of red velvet with fflowers of golde. One vestment of dornyx bodkyn. One awter cloth of red velvet with fflowers of golde and y borders pertayninge to the same. One awter cloth with a nether part of blewe sarcenet imbrodered with garters and iiij certins of sarcenet. xvij awter clothes of linen cloth ix borders and xx certyns all stayned. ij awter clothes of lynne stayed with half-pencers. ij borders of stayed cloth. j awter cloth of ginger collered velvet with a border to the same. j clothe of blewe velvet that went abowt the sepulchre. viij lynnen clothes used in the tyme of Lent and vj certins of lynen clothe pertayninge to the same. ij copes of grene silk demyn and j cope of red velvet imbrodered with gold and images. iij borders and a font clothe all stayned. iij certyns of blew and yellow buckram. iiij certyns of sarcenett red and greene. iiij certyns of saye yellow and red. iiij certyns of red say and ij vayle clothes. j curten of blak sarcenett with silk frenges. xli gaulbez and xxx hed cloths all lynen cloths. j corporas case of cloth of golde. vj corporas cases of dyvers sorts and v corporas cloths. A box of coper otherwise called the pix-box with a cower of sarcenett. ij pewter dyshes. j gilt cup with a patten all gilt. i chalis all gilt without a patten. ij chalices parcell gilt with ij patens. iiij crosse staves ij of wode and ij of coper.