British
Museum--this Churchman is gratefully recorded as the giver to their
convent of several precious ornaments, of which this very cope
seemingly is one. It was the custom for a guild or religious body to
bestow some rich church vestment upon an ecclesiastical advocate who
had befriended it by his pleadings before the tribunal, and thus to
convey their thanks to him with his fee. After such a fashion this
cope might easily have found its way, through Dr. Graunt, from
Warwickshire to Middlesex.

"At the beginning of Elizabeth's reign it went with the nuns, as they
wandered in an unbroken body through Flanders, France, and Portugal,
where they halted. About sixty years ago it came back again from
Lisbon to England, and has found a home in the South Kensington
Museum."

For want of space I have been obliged to omit a great deal of Dr.
Rock's interesting account of the Syon Cope. The reader is referred
for further details, especially regarding the heraldry and the
subjects in the quatrefoils, to Rock's "Textile Fabrics," pp. 275-291,
in the South Kensington Museum (No. 9182).

APPENDIX VII., TO PAGE 350.

The Assyrians were great in fringes. Of this we can judge from their
sculptures, in which the rich deep and broad fringe forms the ornament
and accentuates the shaping of the garments of kings and priests and
nobles. Loftus, in his "Babylon and Susiana," tells of the only
actually existing remnant of their textile art of which I can find any
record. Some terra-cotta coffins were opened at Warka (the ancient
Erech), and in one of them was a cushion, on which the head, gone to
dust, had reposed. It was covered with linen--fringed. Nothing else
had survived the ages except a huge wig of false hair. Such
fragmentary echoes from a life, a civilization, and an art dead for
thousands of years, are curiously pathetic, and touch and startle the
thinking mind.

APPENDIX VIII., TO PAGE 369.

The following poem from the Anglo-Saxon poem of Beowulf shows that the
hospitable hall of the Saxon earl was hung with tapestry embroidered
with gold.

Foela poera was
Much people were
Wera and Wifa pe pat win rued
Men and women who that wine house
Gest sele gyredon gold fag scinon
That guest-hall garnished. Cloths embroidered with gold
Web-after wagum. Wundersiona feld
Those along the walls many wonderful sights
Sioga gustryleum para pe on swyle stara [female or Ve