[591] “Notice sur les Attaches d’un Sceau,” par M. Léopold Delisle (Paris, 1854); and also Rock’s Introduction to “Textile Fabrics,” p. xxii.
[592] The opus Anglicanum often included borders and orphreys set with jewellers’ work (or its imitation, worked in gold thread), gems, and pearls.
[593] Edward III. had from William de Courtenay an embroidered garment, “inwrought with pelicans, images, and tabernacles of gold. The tabernacles were like niches, with pinnacles and roofs.”
[594] Bock, “Liturgische Gewänder,” i. p. 211, says there is a piece of opus Anglicanum in the treasury of Aix-la-Chapelle, called the Cope of Leo III.
[595] For further notice of the “opus Anglicanum,” see chapter (ante) on [ecclesiastical embroideries].
[597] The orphreys are probably not the original work.
[598] “Testamenta Vetusta,” ed. Nicholas, t. i. p. 33.
[599] Woolstrope, Lincolnshire. Collier’s “Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain,” v. p. 3 (ed. Lothbury). This proves that the monks sometimes plied the needle.
[600] See Hall’s “Union of the Houses of York and Lancaster,” pp. lxxv-lxxxiii.