[24] Musical instrument so called.
[25] Piers Ploughman (creed 3, line 434), describing a burly Dominican friar, describes his cloak or cope in the same terms, and describes the under gown, or kirtle, also:—
“His cope that beclypped him
Wel clean was it folden,
Of double worsted y-dyght
Down to the heel.
His kirtle of clean white,
Cleanly y-served,
It was good enough ground
Grain for to beren.”
[26] A limitour, as has been explained above, was a friar whose functions were limited to a certain district of country; a lister might exercise his office wherever he listed.
[27] Thirty masses for the repose of a deceased person.
[28] Viz., in convents of friars, not in monasteries of monks and by the secular clergy.
[29] He was forbidden to say more.
[30] A convent of friars used to undertake masses for the dead, and each friar saying one the whole number of masses was speedily completed, whereas a single priest saying his one mass a day would be very long completing the number, and meantime the souls were supposed to be in torment.
[31] The usual way of concluding a sermon, in those days as in these, was with an ascription of praise, “Who with the Father,” &c.
[32] Cake.