e frontal and upper frontal; it nearly always included the
apparels, sometimes also the albe and amice, but at other times these
were reckoned separately among the linen.

Sometimes the vestments for the celebrant, the gospeller, and the
epistoler, were called "priest, deacon, and subdeacon," instead of
chasuble, dalmatic, and tunicle. Sometimes the last two vestments
(often identical in appearance) were both called dalmatics, or
"deacons," or were both called tunicles.

Apparels were pieces of coloured or embroidered material sewn on to the
albe and amice; they were on the skirt and sleeves of the former, and
the amice apparel was like a large embroidered collar. These additions
to the albe and amice were always used in England, and of course lace
was unknown in old times.

[35] The amices are here called "head-pieces," as they were properly
little hoods which could be turned up so as to cover the head, and were
actually so worn out of doors. The Dominican Friars still wear the
amice on the head when approaching the altar at mass.

Sets of vestments often had copes belonging to them. The cope was
required not only for use when censing altars at choir services, but
also for the celebrant in the procession which (like our Litany)
preceded the principal celebration of the Eucharist on Sundays.

[36] Fannelles = fanons or maniples.

[37] Cloth of gold.

[38] Hangings for lecterns.

[39] Probably the last Prior, alias Linstede.

[40] "Work-day vestments" means vestments for use on weekdays at low
masses.

[41] A vestment with a Latin cross on the back of the chasuble; these
were common in England in the sixteenth century.

[42] _Vide_ the design on the coffin-lid now preserved in the North
Transept (p. 89).

[43] A small banner which was hung on the processional cross.

[44] Probably curtains for hanging behind the rood.

[45] Canopies for hanging above the pyx, which contained the reserved
Sacrament, and was, as usual in England, suspended over the high altar.
N.B.--The Roman form of altar-tabernacle seldom if ever seems to have
been used in England.

[46] Burses, to keep the corporals in.

[47] The "table of the high altar" was the reredos, only exposed on
high days, this cloth or upper frontal concealing it at other times.
The reredos must not be confused with the great altar screen: it was
quite small, and was immediately at the back of the altar itself.

[48] "Hangings for altars above and beneath