[289] Smite, rebuke.
[290] Scrupulous.
[291] Cardinal Otho, the Papal legate in England in the time of Henry III., was a deacon (Matthew Paris, Sub. Ann. 1237); Cardinal Pandulph, in King John’s time, was a sub-deacon (R. Wendover, Sub. Ann. 1212).
[292] There is a very fine drawing of an archbishop in pontificalibus of the latter part of the thirteenth century in the MS. Royal, 2 A. f. 219 v.
[293] “Church of our Fathers,” i. 319.
[294] In a Spanish Book of Hours (Add. 1819-3), at f. 86 v., is a representation of an ecclesiastic in a similar robe of dark purple with a hood, he wears a cardinal’s hat and holds a papal tiara in his hand.
[295] Engraved by Dr. Rock, ii. 97.
[296] Engraved in the Archæological Journal, vii. 17 and 19.
[297] A plain straight staff is sometimes seen in illuminations being put into a bishop’s grave; such staves have been actually found in the coffins of bishops.
[298] The alb was often of coloured materials. We find coloured albs in the mediæval inventories. In Louandre’s “Arts Somptuaires,” vol. i. xi. siecle, is a picture of the canons of St. Martin of Tours in blue albs. Their costume is altogether worth notice.