English costume from prehistoric times to the end of the eighteenth century (1910)
Clinch, George, 1860-1921 · Chicago : A. C. McClurg; London, Methuen · leaf 300
hopossessed a valuable estate a desirable, if not an abso-lutely necessary, step. Hence arose an order ofvowesses, widows who, either from pious or prudentmotives, withdrew themselves from the world and as-sumed a monastic garb. These ladies took a vow of i8o ENGLISH COSTUME chastity, and in token… … Head-dress of widow, circa 1460 of her husband she was called a vowess. CanonRaine, in Testamenta Eboracensin^ Vol. Ill, page312,^ points out that a kind of investiture took place,generally during or before a celebration of the Mass,when the officiating bishop, abbot, or prior, gave the 1 Surtees…
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