Of the episcopal bairn-cloth--the Gremiale of foreign liturgists--we have two specimens here,--Nos. 1031, 1032, pp. 19, 20. The rich one of crimson cloth of gold, once belonging to Bowet, Archbishop of York, who died A.D. 1423, brought more money than even a chasuble of the same stuff:--“Et de xxvj_s._ viij_d._ receptis pro j. bairnecloth de rubeo panno auri. Et de xx_s._ receptis pro j casula de rubeo beaudkyn, &c. Inventorium,” &c.[402] Old episcopal shoes are now become great liturgical rarities, but there is one here,--No. 1290, p. 46. At one time they were called “sandals;” and among the episcopal ornaments that went by usage to Durham cathedral at the death of any of its bishops, were “mitra et baculum et sandalia et cætera episcopalia,” of Hugh Pudsey, A.D. 1195.[403] Later was given them the name of “sabatines;” and Archbishop Bowet’s inventory mentions two pairs:--“pro j pare de sabbatones, brouddird, et couch’ cum perell’; pro j pare de sabbatones de albo panno auri,” &c.[404] [400] Collectanea Curiosa, ed. Gutch, t. ii. p 265. [401] King’s College, Cambridge, and Eton College Statutes, ed. Wright, p. 632. [402] Test. Ebor. t. iii. p. 76, ed. Surtees Society. [403] Wills of the Northern Counties, ed. Surtees Society, t. i. p. 3. [404] Ib. p. 76. SECTION VI.--ARTISTS AND MANUFACTURERS Will, on many occasions, heartily rejoice to have, within easy reach, such an extensive, varied, and curious collection of textiles gathered from many lands, and wrought in different ages. For the painter and the decorator it must have a peculiar value. Until this collection of silken and other kinds of woven stuffs had been brought to England, and opened for the world’s inspection and study, an artist had not, either in this country or abroad, any available means of being correctly true in the patterns of those silks and velvets with which he wished to array his personages, or of the hangings for garnishing the walls of the hall in which he laid the scene of his subject. In such a need, right glad was he if he might go to any small collection of scanty odds and ends belonging to a friend, or kept in private hands. So keenly was this want felt, that, but a few years ago, works of beautiful execution, but of costly price, were undertaken upon the dress of olden times, and mediæval furniture; yet those who got up such books could do nothing better than set out in drawings, as their authorities for both the branches of their subject, such few specimens as they could pick up figured in illuminated MSS. and the works of the early masters. Here, however, our own and foreign artists see before them, not copies, but those very self-same stuffs.