Note 570 — Chapter IV

XXXth Injunction of 1559: “Item, Her Majesty being desirous to have the prelacy and clergy of this realm to be had as well in outward reverence, as otherwise regarded for the worthiness of their ministries, and thinking it necessary to have them known to the people in all places and assemblies, both in the church and without, and thereby to receive the honour and estimation due to the special messengers and ministers of Almighty God, wills and commands that all archbishops and bishops, and all other that be called or admitted to preaching or ministry of the sacraments, or that be admitted into any vocation ecclesiastical, or into any society of learning in either of the Universities or elsewhere, shall use and wear such seemly habits, garments, and such square caps as were most commonly and orderly received in the latter year of the reign of King Edward VI.; not meaning thereby to attribute any holiness or special worthiness to the said garments, but as St. Paul writeth: ‘Omnia decenter et secundum ordinem fiant’ (1 Cor. xiv. cap.).” Cf. Gee’s Elizabethan Prayer Booke and Ornaments (London, 1902); Tomlinson, The Prayer Book, Articles and Homilies (London, 1897); Parker, The Ornaments Rubric (Oxford, 1881).