Parish priests and their people in the Middle Ages in England . ks and forms and other ornaments suitable, so that with the prophet they may be able to sing, Lord, I have loved the honour of Thy house, etc. As to the manse of the rectory and its repair, and other things which are not written in this book, let the rectors or vicars know that they may be compelled by the ordinary of the place, to do according to this constitution and others in this case provided.* This is the formal catalogue of the minimum whichthe law required the parson and the parishioners toprovide and maintain. But people
Parish priests and their people in the Middle Ages in England . ks and forms and other ornaments suitable, so that with the prophet they may be able to sing, Lord, I have loved the honour of Thy house, etc. As to the manse of the rectory and its repair, and other things which are not written in this book, let the rectors or vicars know that they may be compelled by the ordinary of the place, to do according to this constitution and others in this case provided.* This is the formal catalogue of the minimum whichthe law required the parson and the parishioners toprovide and maintain. But people were not satisfiedwith doing only what they were obliged to do. Aconsiderable number of inventories exist of thetreasures which had gradually accumulated as thegifts of pious benefactors to the cathedrals andchurches : shrines, reliquaries, statues, crosses, mitres,pastoral staves, lamps and candlesticks, chalices,patens, pyxes, paxes, censers, processional crosses ofgold and silver, often set with precious stones ; altar * Archbishop Grays , p. PROCESSION OF BISHOPS WITH CROSS BEARKR, THLRIKER, HOLY WATER BEARER, PRIESTS, CANONS AND BISHOPS. FROM THE X\. CENT. MS., TIBERIUS, B \III., f. 43. p. 190 CLERICAL VESTMENTS, cloths, hangings, palls,* vestments of the costliestfabrics, many of them embroidered, and often orna-mented with precious stones. When we add thepaintings of stained and sculptured marble, andcarved woodwork of the fabric, and the monumentswith their recumbent statues, and call to mind thatthe best art of the period was devoted to these works,we recognize that the churches of the country weretreasures of art. Even the humblest village churchesoften possessed noble tombs of the local lords, andtheir gifts of ornaments of costly material and fineworkmanship. If we wish to see our priests as they ministered inchurch, it will be necessary to describe the vestmentswhich were worn by them in those It is a little doubtful what they wore at the very
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