Of black cendal and of rede,
Flourished with roses of silver bright, &c.[118]
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.