two of white fustian. Five old copes were of embroidered work, and six of flowered work. One was "very well wrought with images"; one, wrought with images, was of green damask; six were of red silk, worked with flowers and stars; one was of black velvet. Some of these splendid cloaks may have been given by noble benefactors out of their own wardrobes. For Richard of the Lion Heart presented to the prior of Durham his Parliament robe "of blue velvet, wrought with great lions of pure gold"; whilst Queen Philippa, making a visit to Ely, gave the prior her "jewelled robes of State, powdered with golden squirrels."
Here, also, hung surplices, and eucharistic vestments of cloth of gold and silk and velvet and serge. Here the abbot may have kept his two mitres, one for common days, the other for high feasts; but both of them shining with plates of silver, and garnished with pearls. Each had its cushion; a word which the writer
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