Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Part 9

A fore front of cloth of tissue.

Two pieces of blue velvet, with flower-de-luces.

A fore front of white damask embroidered.

Two cloths of tissue for the High Altar.

A fore front of red worsted.

A cloth of red and blue to hang over the table of the High Altar.[47]

A veil for Lent in the chancel.

Two hangings for Our-Lady altar (above and beneath) of red tissue.

Hangings for the same altar[48] (above and beneath) of white and green damask embroidered with flowers.

Hangings of the Trinity altar, of red damask with flowers of gold.

Hangings of red silk for the same altar, with a picture of the Trinity and Our Lady.

Another hanging of white taffata, with the Pa.s.sion of Christ.

A black hea.r.s.e-cloth[49] of worsted, with a white cross.

ST. JOHN'S ALTAR.

Hangings, above and beneath, of cloth of gold.

Two hangings of blue damask embroidered.

Two hangings of white chamlet embroidered with flowers.

Hangings of russet sarcenet embroidered with "iij levyd gresse."[50]

One hanging of "dornyx."

BANNER-CLOTHS.

Two streamers of sarcenet, one blue, the other green.

Fourteen "cross-cloths," banner-cloths of all sorts, good and bad, silk and other.

ALTAR-CLOTHS, ETC.

Eight altar-cloths of diaper, and four plain.

Nine surplices.

Three towels--two of diaper and one plain.

A cus.h.i.+on of green silk.[51]

A carpet[52] before the high altar.

LATTEN.

One holy-water pot.

Two pair of great standards.[53]

One pair of small [standards].

The best hea.r.s.e-cloth of St. Katherine.[54]

The Trinity hea.r.s.e-cloth.[55]

Two other hea.r.s.e-cloths, good and bad.[56]

PLATE.

A monstrance of silver and gilt,[57] with a "burrall" (= beryl).

Two candlesticks of silver and parcel gilt.[58]

A pax of silver and gilt, with a "burrall."[59]

Two basons of silver and parcel gilt.[60]

A pair of censers of silver parcel gilt.[61]

A s.h.i.+p[62] of silver parcel gilt.

A single cross of silver parcel gilt.

A "maser" with a border and a "knop" of silver all gilt.[63]

Two pieces of silver "knoppis which was in the brest of the image of the Resurrection."

Other lists follow, and contain goods and ornaments that were missing, or that had been sold by various churchwardens since the beginning of the reign of Edward VI.

From these we learn that the church had also possessed such vestments and ornaments as the following: