ind the starry cross and
the swastika filling alternate square spaces on the
mantle of Achilles--playing at dice with Ajax--on a
celebrated Greek vase in the Etruscan Museum at the
Vatican. I have referred to this design elsewhere.
(Plate 26.)

[508] Rock's "Introduction," p. liii.

[509] This date is assigned to it by Monsignor Clifford.

[510] Kindly supplied to me by the Father Superior of
San Clemente in Rome.

[511] In the cathedral of Aix, Switzerland. Bock's
"Liturgische Gewaender," i. taf. ii.

[512] One of these mitres has, it is said, been brought
to England.

[513] Bock, "Liturgische Gewaender," ii. taf. xii. This
is dyed in Tyrian purple (rosy red), and is simply the
cross, representing the tree with twelve leaves, "for
the healing of the nations."

[514] Bock, "Liturgische Gewaender," i. taf. iii. pp.
157-160.

[515] Bock, _ibid._, p. 158, quotes the Jesuit Erasmus
Froehlich, (1754).

[516] See Bock's "Liturgische Gewaender," i. taf. iv. pp.
165, 166. "One of three costly garments."

[517] Modifications of the "wheel pattern" ("wheel and
plate"). Of these works of the tenth and eleventh
centuries the fine Roman lettering in the borders is a
marking characteristic.

[518] See Bock's "Liturgische Gewaender," i. p. 214.

[519] There was no guild of embroiderers in England that
we know of till that incorporated in the reign of
Elizabeth. See chapter on English embroidery.

[520] Bock, i. 214, says that the splendid stuffs and
embroideries were entirely consecrated to the use of the
Church, till the luxurious arts invaded European
domestic life from the seventh to the twelfth century.

[521] See the cross on the Rheims cope (plate 63).

[522] There is no doubt it was only used for church
work.

[523] At Aachen, in Switzerland, there is a very
remarkable pluvial of one kind of opus Anglicanum, which
has been already alluded to. The border, of splendid
gold embroidery, has the pattern completed in fine
flowers of jewellers' work. (See Bock, "Liturgische
Gewaender," ii. p. 297, taf. xli.-xliv.) Rock, "Textile
Fabrics," Introduction, p. xxxi, cites from Mon. Angl.
(ii. 222), the vestments given to St. Alban's Abbey by
Margaret, Duchess of Clarence, A.D. 1429, as being
remarkable for pure gold in its t