[259] For another good illustration of a clerk of time of Richard II. see the illumination of that king’s coronation in the frontispiece of the MS. Royal, 14, E iv., where he seems to be in attendance on one of the bishops. He is habited in blue cassock, red liripipe, black purse, with penner and inkhorn.
[260] “Test. Ebor.,” vol. ii. p. 98.
[261] Ibid., vol. ii. p. 38.
[262] “Test. Ebor.,” vol. ii. p. 143.
[263] Ibid., vol. ii. p. 149.
[264] Archdeacon Hale’s “Precedents in Criminal Causes,” p. 113.
[265] From the duty of carrying holy water, mentioned here and in other extracts, the clerk derived the name of aqua bajulus, by which he is often called, e.g., in many of the places in Archdeacon Hale’s “Precedents in Criminal Causes.”
[266] Ibid., p. 122.
[267] York Fabric Rolls, p. 257.
[268] Ibid., p. 248.