Note 581 — Chapter XI

Canon Jackson, writing of embroidery, says: “That this was cared for in the great monasteries at this early date appears from a MS. register of Glastonbury Abbey in the possession of the Marquis of Bath. It is called the Liber Henrici de Soliaco, and gives an account of the affairs of that abbey in A.D. 1189 (Richard I.).” There was a special official whose business it was to provide the monastery with church ornaments generally, and specially with “aurifrigium,” or gold embroidery, on vestments. For this a house and land, with an annual allowance of food, was set apart. Another tenant also held some land, to which was attached the obligation to find a “worker in gold.”—Letter from Canon Jackson to the Author.