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English costume from prehistoric times to the end of the eighteenth century (1910)

Clinch, George, 1860-1921 · Chicago : A. C. McClurg; London, Methuen · leaf 368

An illustration from English costume from prehistoric times to the end of the eighteenth century, 1910, leaf 368
t. When the nunsleft England in the early days of QueenElizabeth they carried the cope withthem on their wanderings through Flan-ders, France, and Portugal to Lisbon,whence they returned with it to Englandin 1830. After passing through thehands of the sixteenth earl of Shrews-bury, and Dr. Rock, it… … Robert London,priest, vested incope, etc., 1416(Chartham, Kent) Cope, of canvas, entirely covered with embroidery ofvarious classes ; the interlacing barbed quatrefoils are bor-dered with gold thread worked In close-lying- short stitches,and three rows of green or red and yellow and white silks…

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