Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from English Liturgical Vestments in the Thirteenth Century: Being a Paper Read Before the Exeter Diocesan Architectural and Archaeological Society at the College Hall, Exeter, September 13, 1895
Again, in the year 1305, a series of provincial Con stitutions was published by archbishop Winchelsea at Merton in Surrey, in the fourth of which it was contained: That the parishioners of every Church in the province of Canterbury may for the future certainly know what repairs belong to them, and they may have no disputes with their rectors, we enjoin that for the future they be bound to find all the things underwritten a lesson-book, a song-book, a gradual-book, psalter, crozier, ordinal, missal and manual, a chalice, the principal vestment with the chasuble, a dalmatic, a tunic, a choral cope and all its appendages, a frontal for the great altar with three towels, three surplices, a rochet, a cross for processions, &c.
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