[91] With one modification only. The albs are expressly ordered to be worn plain.
[92] For a complete analysis of the 'Ornaments Rubric' with elaborate historical and legal disquisitions, reference should be made to the published report of the Folkestone case (Kegan Paul, 1878).
[93] Calderwood, 'Historie of the Kirk of Scotland' (Wodrow Society), vol. iii, p. 354.
[94] Habiliments.
CHAPTER VII.
THE RITUAL USES OF VESTMENTS.
We have now described the form and ornamentation of the different vestments worn by the clergy of the principal sections of Christendom; but we have only incidentally touched upon another and equally important matter, namely, when and how these vestments were worn, and the liturgical practices connected with them. A more extended account of these matters will be the subject of the present chapter.
The non-reformed Western and Eastern Churches alone need occupy our attention. The vestment uses of the various reformed churches are practically nil, and all available details concerning these Churches have already been given in the preceding chapter.
Vestments were obtained by a church or a cathedral in many ways. They were often embroidered for presentation to the church by ladies, who found in the work of embroidery an easy and pleasant way of passing the time; or else by the inmates of nunneries as a religious work. Some were presented as expiatory offerings by conscience-stricken laymen; others bequeathed as a perpetual memorial by incumbents or prelates. Others, again, were purchased with money mulcted as compensation for sins.