Vespers of the Dead[458]

The mourners in black cloaks are at the east end of the stalls; the pall over the coffin is red with a gold cross; the hearse has about eighteen lighted tapers; the ecclesiastics seem to be friars in dark brown habit (Franciscans).

Mediæval Norwich. (From Braun’s “Theatrum”)[492]
Mediæval Exeter. (From Braun’s “Theatrum”)[498]
Mediæval Bristol. (From Braun’s “Theatrum”)[500]
Knights doing Penance at the Shrine of St. Edmund[535]

The abbot is vested in a gorgeous cope and mitre; one of the monks behind him also wears a cope over his monk’s habit.

References to other pictorial illustrations in MSS. in the British Museum are given in Appendix III., p. [567].


PARISH PRIESTS AND THEIR PEOPLE.

CHAPTER I.