Parish priests and their people in the Middle Ages in England . Sir Roger, Chaplain. The subject receives some illustration from literarysources; the Instructions to Parish Priests enjoins— FURNITURE AND DRESS. 171 In honeste clothes thow muste gonBasdard ne bawdryke were thou non. But Piers Plowman notes their contrary would be better, he says— If many a priest bare for their baselards and their broochesA pair of beads in their hand and a book under their John and Sire Geffrey hath a girdle of silver,A baselard and a knife, with botons over John Ball, priest. (From
Parish priests and their people in the Middle Ages in England . Sir Roger, Chaplain. The subject receives some illustration from literarysources; the Instructions to Parish Priests enjoins— FURNITURE AND DRESS. 171 In honeste clothes thow muste gonBasdard ne bawdryke were thou non. But Piers Plowman notes their contrary would be better, he says— If many a priest bare for their baselards and their broochesA pair of beads in their hand and a book under their John and Sire Geffrey hath a girdle of silver,A baselard and a knife, with botons over John Ball, priest. (From MS. of Froissarts Chronicle.) A little later he speaks of proud priests habited inpatlocks (a short jacket worn by laymen), with peakedshoes and large knives or daggers. In the poems of John Audelay, in the fifteenthcentury, a parish priest is described in— His girdle harneshed with silver, his baselard hangs by. Examples will be found in the Wills and Inventories, 172 PARISH PRIESTS AND THEIR PEOPLE. which we have placed at the end of this chapter (p. 173,etc.). We may add here that the silver ornamentsof these zones were probably plates more or lessornamented with repousse work and sometimes withenamel and precious stones; that the plates musthave been of considerable substance is indicated bythe following— Thomas Sufwyk, Rector of Burton Noveray (not dated—c. 1390), leaves to his parish church his great missal and bestvestment, and also his best silver zone to make a chalice.* Sometimes a clergyman had not only a basilardhabitually hanging at his gird
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