See Venice, 1.
Inventaire du Trésor de N. D. de Lorette.—Bib. Nat. MSS.
Letters from Italy.
The gremial, or apron, placed on the lap of the Roman Catholic bishops when performing sacred functions in a sitting posture.—Pugin's Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament.
This reminds one of the lines of Goldsmith, in his poem, "The Haunch of Venison," the giving of venison to hungry poets who were in want of mutton; he says:
"Such dainties to send them their health it would hurt;