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[musical] notes on second folio of which Quam P’P’T; also one ordinal? on 
second folio of which ALTI JUS ENIM; also one book called rationale divinorum? 
on second folio of which zr vita; also one p’o oculi on second folio of which 
after oustodias 88 HERE; also one book of deeretals on second folio of which 
ILLUD INVENIRE NON POTEST; also one . . . . of which on second folio 
TALI QUOD DIE.” 
“Ormaments . . . . In the first place one set of vestments of white 
colour, of cloth of gold, powdered with griffens heads of gold, with one chasuble, 
two tunics, three copes, with appurtenances and frontal, and sub-frontal* of the 
same; also four curtains of white tartan; also one set of vestments of black 
colour, of worsted,‘ with chasuble, two tunics, three copes with the appurtenances 
of the same set; also one set of vestments of ruby baudekin,® with white birds ; 
also one set of vestments of blood red baudekin; also one set of vestments of 
green tartan ; also one set of ruby tartan, with one chasuble, two tunics and one 
cope, with appurtenances; also one set of cloth, decorated with gold of Morre ® 
colour, powdered with heads of griffens; viz.: one chasuble, two tunics and 
apparels? of one albe of the same set, and apparels of two other albes, of different 
colours ; also one albe with amice, of which the apparels are of blood colour; 
also three amices, of which one apparel is of divers arms;* another is of 
cloth, ornamented with gold, powdered with fleurs-de-lis, and the third 
is of ruby velvet, powdered with golden griffens; also six towels of which 
four are of Parisian? work; also three frontals; also two wipers, and another 
“oe The said Chantry is dedicated in honeur of the Annunciation of 
the Blessed Virgin Mary; also a pall® of green colour, powdered with lions and 
peacocks, picked out with gold. 
“Memorandum of the Books of the Chantry of Mere, which are wanting. In 
1 The word ordinal is now commonly used to mean the ordination services 
which are bound up with the English Book of Common Prayer, but in mediaval 
lists of Church books Ordinale means a book of rubrical directions for priests, 
? This is the celebrated work Rationale Divinorum Officionarum, by William 
Durandus, who was Bishop of Mende, in Languedoc, and died 1296. 
3 This, from the connection, seems to be the meaning of “fromite ”’ and “ sub- 
fromite.” 
4 Worsted was first made at Worsted, Norfolk, about 1348. 
5 Baudekin, the richest kind of stuff, the web being gold, and the woof silk, 
with embroidery, so called from an Oriental name for Babylon, whence the stuff 
was brought. 
5 Dark red. 
7 Apparels=ornamental coloured borders. 
8 Divers arms, 7.e., heraldic coats of arms. 
® The palls anciently used at the funerals of persons of distinction were of a 
most costly and beautiful description, frequently of velvet,’or cloth-of-gold, with 
- embroidered imagery and heraldic devices. The palls used for ecclesiastical 
purposes were of four kinds :—first, palls for covering the bier and coffin at 
funerals; second, palls for extending over tombs; third, ornamental palls to 
hang in choirs at festivals ; fourth, linen cloths to cover the altars. 
