Of the ten beautiful silken albs which Hugh Pudsey left to Durham, two were made of samit, other two of cendal, or as the bishop calls it, _sandal_: “Quæ dicuntur sandales.”[119] Exeter cathedral had a red cope with a green lining of sandal: “Capa rubea cum linura viridi sandalis;”[120] and a cape of sandaline: “Una capa de sandalin.”[121] Chasubles, too, were, it is likely, for poorer churches, made of cendal or sandel; Piers Ploughman speaks thus to the high dames of his day-- And ye lovely ladies With youre long fyngres, That ye have silk and sandal To sowe, whan tyme is. Chesibles for chapeleyns, Chirches to honoure, &c.[122] A stronger kind of cendal was wrought and called, in the Latin inventories of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, cendatus afforciatus, and of such there was a cope at St. Paul’s;[123] while another cope of cloth of gold was lined with it,[124] as also a chasuble of red samit given by Bishop Henry of Sandwich. [118] Ellis’s Met. Rom. ii. 156. [119] Wills and Inventories, p. 3. [120] Oliver, p. 299. [121] Ib. p. 315. [122] The Vision, Passus Sextus, t. i. p. 117, ed. Wright. [123] P. 317. [124] P. 318. _Syndonus_ or _Sindonis_, as it would seem, was a bettermost sort of cendal. St. Paul’s had a chasuble as well as a cope of this fabric: “Casula de sindone purpurea, linita cendata viridi;[125] “capa de syndono Hispanico.”[126] [125] P. 323. [126] Transcriber’s note: Footnote, originally number 9 on page xli, not in original text. _Taffeta_, it is likely, if not a thinner, was a less costly silken stuff than cendal; which word, to this day, is used in the Spanish language, and is defined to be a thin transparent textile of silk or linen: “Tela de seda ó lino muy delgada y trasparente.” As the Knights’ flags: Ther gonfanens and ther penselles Wer well wrought off grene sendels; as their long cyclases which they wore over their armour were of cendal, so too were of cendal, all blazoned with their armorial bearings, the housing of the steeds they strode. Of cendal, also, was the lining of the church’s vestments, and the peaceful citizen’s daily garments. Of his “Doctour of Phisike,” Chaucer tells us:-- In sanguin and in perse he clad was alle Lined with taffata, and with sendalle.[127] For the weaving of cendal, among the Europeans, Sicily was once celebrated, and a good example from others in this collection, is No. 8255, p. 163. [127] Prologue, Poems, ed. Nicolas, ii. 14. _Sarcenet_, during the fifteenth century took by degrees the place of cendal, at least here in England.