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BBIEF NOTICES ON MONASTIC AND ECCLESIASTICAL COSTUME. BY SIR GEORGE DUOKETT, BART., KNIGHT OP THE ORDER OF MERIT OF SAXE COBURG-Q-OTHA ; OFFICER OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION IN FRANCE ; AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF NORMANDY. IT is scarcely supposable, with the mass of monastic and ecclesiastical literature dispersed throughout our great libraries, that any very material, or even additional information can be imparted on the subject of churchrobes or the clothing of monks, beyond what may be found among the authorities and evidences of different public collections. But the highest authorities are not always at hand, so that in addition to pointing out those sources1 chiefly tending to elucidate the question of such vestments, we will draw up a few brief notices for the benefit of those of the Sussex Archaeological Society who may not happen to be familiar with the topic. Much has been said of late in certain quarters on conventual and ecclesiastical dress, and as the matter has not to our knowledge been hitherto canvassed in the pages of these Collections, that fact alone would make it desirable to refer to it. It would be, as a rule, a very grave error to associate too closely the monastic and ecclesiastical dress of former days ; a wide distinction must be drawn between them. The dress of the cloister and that of the choir are not i Some of -the chief authorities are the following :—Mabillon, " Annales Ordinis S. Benedicti;" "Bibliotheca Cluniacensis;" Quicherat, "Histoire du Costume en France;" "Specimen Monacholigise;" Maillot, "Costume des Français;" " Stevens's Dugdale's Monasticon ; " Strutt, " Dresses of the People of England ; " Fosbroke, "British Monachism;" Fosbroke, "Encyclopedia of Antiquities;" " Catholic Dictionary " (Addis and Arnold).
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