[83] Quoted in the Builder, 7 July 1894.
[84] Sic., should be viiij or ix.
[85] Worn-out vestments were also found useful for the interment of ecclesiastics, as we have seen, supra p. 101.
[86] There is an error of twenty somewhere in this calculation.
[87] 'Memorials of Ripon,' vol. iii, p. 219 (Surtees Society).
CHAPTER V.
THE VESTMENTS OF THE EASTERN CHURCHES.
The proverbial conservatism of the unchanging East, which is felt in all ecclesiastical as well as in social matters, will make our task in the present chapter much lighter. The action of evolution, which makes the history of the Western vestments so complex, is hardly felt in the East. The mediaevalism, or, rather, primaevalism, which shuts out instrumental aid from the musical portions of the Eastern service acts upon vestments in minimizing the profusion of ornamentation which plays such an important part in the externals of Western ritual.