By C. E. Ponting, F.S.A. 



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[musical] notes on second folio of which quam p'p't ; also one ordinal 1 on 

 second folio of which alti jus enim ; also one book called rationale divinorum 2 

 on second folio of which et vita ; also onejw'o oculi on second folio of which 

 after custodias SB here ; also one book of decretals on second folio of which 

 illud inveniee non potest ; also one . . . . of which on second folio 



TALI QUOD DIE." 



" Ornaments .... 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 3 of the 

 same ; also four curtains of white tartan ; also one set of vestments of black 

 colour, of worsted, 4 with chasuble, two tunics, three copes with the appurtenances 

 of the same set ; also one set of vestments of ruby baudekiu, 5 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 6 

 colour, powdered with heads of griffens ; via. : one chasuble, two tunics and 

 apparels 7 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 ; 8 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 f rontals ; also two wipers, and another 



. . . The said Chantry is dedicated in honour of the Annunciation of 

 the Blessed Virgin Mary ; also a pall 9 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 mediaeval 

 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. 



6 Dark red. 



7 Apparels=ornamental coloured borders. 



8 Divers arms, i.e., heraldic coats of arms. 



9 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 aud 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. 



