| 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.