Trees:
The Homa, hom, or sacred tree of the Persians, 84, 140, 154, 213, 215, 216, 238.
Oak-leaves, 202, 245.
Vine, 163, 245.
Box for corporals, 112, 193, 194.
for reservation of the consecrated Host, from Maundy Thursday till Good Friday, 112.
Brandenberg, arms of, 63.
Brocades, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 19, 20, 29, 114, 116, 117, 122, 126, &c.
Brooke, the Collection, 312.
Bouchier Knot, 168.
Bourgtheroud, Hotel de, at Rouen, 294.
Boy-bishop, 85.
Bugles, 169.
Burse, or corporal-case, 144, 145, 194.
Byssus, see Bissus.
Byzantine stuffs, 155, 159, 160, 161, 219, 222.
C, the letter, interlaced, 5, 38.
Cairo, 57.
Canvas, what kind of stuff meant by the word in old inventories, 185.
Cap, scull, 16;
of estate or state, 86.
Capuanus, Petrus, quoted, 286.
Carpet, 66, 83, 209, 248;
see Pedalia, or Pede-cloth.
Caxton, his translation of the "Legenda Aurea," quoted, 275, 277.
Cendal, 163.
Cere-cloth, for laying immediately over the altar-stone, 160.
Chairs, seat-covers for, 110.
Charles I.'s scull cap, 16.
Chasubles, 1, 5, 13, 21, 76, 81, 82, 88, 142, 208, 213, 264, 266, 269.
Chaucer quoted, 64.
Cheetahs, see Zoology.
Chinese silks, &c. 1, 8, 11, 12, 16, 75.
Choirs, nine, of angels, 22, 281.
"Church of our Fathers," quoted, 19, 34, 36, 46, 85, 103, 170, 174, 181, 186, 194, 196, 202, 203, 205, 206, 210, 239, 248, 265.
Clare, Margaret de, Countess of Cornwall, 6.
Cleves, princely house of, 246.
Cleves, its armorial bearings, 22.
Cloth, Corpus Christi, what, 202, 260.
for crozier, 174, 250.
for lectern, 210, &c.
for pyx, 202, 260.
of estate, 107.
of gold or lama d'oro, 204, 208.
Cluny, Hotel de, at Paris, 212.
Cobham college and church, Kent, iron lectern once at, 213.
Cobweb stuff, so-called, 162.
Collars of Orders—
St. Michael, 84;
The Holy Ghost, 84.
Cologne, 61, 187;
painting in cathedral 187;
woven stuffs for church use, see orphreys of web.
embroidery, 61, 66, 67, 246.
Colours, murrey, once such a favourite in England, 9.
pink or gules, and green, somewhat peculiar to Parlermitan looms, 165, 170, 178, &c.
those used in the Latin as well as the Greek rite, 172;
black in services for the dead, 197.
Copes, 2, 15, 80, 207, 275.
hoods of, 67, 144, 198;
in England, how shaped, 41.
Coral beads, 169.
Cornelimunster, abbey of, 26;
sudary of our Lord there, 26.
Coronation of the B. V. Mary figured, 236, 272, 280.
Corporals or square pieces of altar linen, 144, 145, 194, 195.
cases for keeping, 112, 144, 145, 194;
see Burse.
Corpus Christi cloths, 202, 260.
Costume, mediæval, 78.
Counterpane, 271.
Coventry, its famous gild, 289, &c.
Coverlets, 20, &c.
Cracowes or pointed shoes, so called, 53.
Cradle-coverlets, 4, 13, 66, 67, 100, 103, 104, 110.
Crape, 126.
Creeping to the cross, ceremony of, on Good Friday, 174.
Crescent moon and star, symbolical of our Lord and His church, 285.
Crocet work, 18, 72.
