Note 27 — Chapter XVII · REWARDS OF MERIT.

The following dignitaries of the Church wear decorations of Orders of Knighthood.

Archbishop of Armagh. Bishop of Oxford.

Archbishop of Dublin. Dean of Westminster.

Dean of St. Patrick.

The vestments of the Bishop of Oxford throw into the shade those even of Roman Catholic prelates.

“The said prelate shall have and wear for his habit, a mantle of crimson velvet, lined with white taffeta, richly guarded with the Sovereign’s badges and cognizances, and upon his right shoulder an escutcheon of the arms of the Order, within a garter, and the lace of his mantle shall be of blue silk, interwoven with gold.”⁠—History of British Orders of Knighthood, by Sir Harris Nicolas, p. 430.