In the “Romaunt of the Rose,” translated by Chaucer, Dame Gladnesse is thus described:—
—in an over gilt samite
Clad she was.[84]
On a piece of German orphrey-web, in this collection, [No. 1373], p. 80, and likely done at Cologne, in the sixteenth century, the gold is put by the gilding process.
[82] Ib. t. i. p. 202, new ed.
[83] Saint Cuthbert, by J. Raine, p. 194.
[84] Poems, ed. Nicolas, t. iv. p. 27.
In the year 1295, St. Paul’s, London, had: “Casula de panno inaurato super serico,” a chasuble of gilded silk;[85] and it was lined with red cloth made at Ailesham,[86] or Elesham Priory in Lincolnshire. It had, too, another chasuble, and altar frontals of gilded canvas: “casula de panno inaurato in canabo, lineata carda Indici coloris cum panno consimili de Venetiis ad pendendum ante altare.”[87] Venice seems to have been the place where these gilded silks and canvases, like the leather and pretty paper of a later epoch, were wrought.
[85] Dugdale’s St. Paul’s, p. 335.
[86] Ib.