FUR GARMENTS
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and of the canons of
the cardinals
the
little
black
St.
John of
are
tails
Lateran, only usually omitted in church costume, in order to emphasize the purity of the ecclesiastical profession.
The Roman to
wear ermine
very rarely use
cardinals, however, retained the right
but they the other hand, the red velvet
linings to their state robes
On
it.
;
always worn by the Pope, is lined and edged with ermine, usually without tails. At the Council of Aix-la-Chapelle, ninth century, tippet, or cape,
the dress of the
monks was
carefully denned, each
monk
being furnished with gloves; in the summer, " wanti," a kind of glove without fingers, having a
place for the winter,
made
"
thumb and made
muffulce,"
of fur,
which
of woollen cloth; in
appear
and to have been a
have
to
been
sort of sleeve or
deep cuff. In the twelfth century, the canons of a Sens cathedral allowed themselves to be corrupted
by presents of beautiful
furs,
and whilst,
in
1127,
the Council of
London allowed abbesses and nuns
wear the
lambs and cats only, furs were It is altogether to the clergy. to ascertain which was the first
to
then
impossible
English
now
who wore ermine but it is Edward III. issued a decree, limiting
sovereign
certain that its
fur of
forbidden
;
use exclusively to the royal family, a law, how3