have been intended originally
for an ecclesiastical purpose. It sounds as if it were a
stray fragment from Graeco-Roman art, rather than a
survival of the classical legend employed as a pretty
motive for decoration. Wiglaf's veil is named by
Ingulphus. See Strutt's "English Dresses," pp. 3, 7. See
also "Historia Eliensis," l. 2, ed. Stewart, p. 183.

[570] See Rock's "Textile Fabrics," p. xxi.; also for
Council of Cloveshoe, see his "Church of Our Fathers,"
p. 14.

[571] The Benedictines drained the marshes of
Lincolnshire and Somersetshire to employ the poor in the
eighth century. St. Bennet travelled to France and
Italy, and brought back from his seven journeys cunning
artificers in _glass_ and stone, besides costly books
and copies of the Scriptures, in order (as is expressly
said by Bede) that the ignorant might learn from them,
as others learned from books. See Mrs. Jameson's
"Legends of the Monastic Orders," pp. 56, 57.

[572] See Raine's "St. Cuthbert," pp. 50-209. Mr. Raine
describes it as being "of woven gold, with spaces left
vacant for needlework embroidery." Beautifully drawn
majestic figures stand in niches on rainbow-coloured
clouds, and the effect is that of an illumination of the
ninth century. The style is rather Greek or Byzantine
than Anglo-Saxon. For further notices of St. Cuthbert's
relics, see chapter on Materials, _ante_; also see
Rock's "Introduction," p. cxvii.

[573] Appendix 10.

[574] See "Calendar of the Anglican Church," by J. H.
Parker (1851): "St. Dunstan was not only a patron of the
useful and fine arts, but also a great proficient in
them himself; and his almost contemporary biographers
speak of him as a poet, painter, and musician, and so
skilled a worker in metals that he made many of the
church vessels in use at Glastonbury."

[575] See Rock's "Church of our Fathers," p. 270.

[576] Strutt's "English Dresses," p. 70, quoted from
Ingulphus' "History of Croyland Abbey."

[577] Shot, or iridescent materials, were then and had
been some time manufactured at Tinnis in Egypt, a city
now effaced. It was called "bouqualemoun," and employed
for dresses and hangings for the Khalifs. See Schefer's
"Relations du Voyage de Nassiri Khosrau," p. cxi. The
original was written in the middle of the eleventh