[785]

38 Hen. VIII. = 1546. Rymer's Fœdera. Vol. xv., p. 105.

[786]

Harl. MS. 1419. Passim.

[787]

See Holbein's portraits.

[788]

"The old cut-work cope."—Beaumont and Fletcher. The Spanish Curate.

[789]

We read, too, of "3 kyrcheys yt was given to the kyrk wash," large as a woman's hood worn at a funeral, highly ornamented with the needle by pious women, and given to be sold for the good of the impoverished church, for which the churchwardens of St. Michael, Spurr Gate, York, received the sum of 5s.