Friars, to, [41], [46], [71], [150], [175].
Friar Andrew, an Italian, [93], [144].
Frieze, coats of, [87].
"The materials of which the clothes of persons of rank were composed about this time consisted of velvet, satin, sarcenet, gold lace, and fur."—See Whitaker's Craven, [325]. From the well known lines written on the marriage of Charles Brandon with the Queen Dowager of France,
To Mary:
Cloth of gold do not despise,
To match thyself to cloth of frise.
To Charles:
Cloth of frise be not too bold,
Though, thou art match to cloth of gold.
"we might presume that frieze rarely formed the dress of persons of rank, but Jamieson in voce (Supplement) quotes from an Inventory of 1539, 'Ane goone of freis claith of gold.' In the following century frieze was more generally adopted. Fuller speaks of it as a coarse kind of cloth, manufactured in Wales, 'then which none warmer to be worn in winter, and the finest sort thereof very fashionable and gentile. Prince Henry had a frieze sute out of it,' &c. He adds, 'It will daily grow more into use, especially since the gentry of the land, being generally much impoverished, abate much of their gallantry.' Worthies, 553."—M.