Excerpt from Church Vestments: Their Origin, Use, and OrnamentSome very chaste examples of ancient English vestments exist in the possession of different members of our Catholic nobility and gentry; but, with few exceptions, these old sacred robes are now jealously kept from exhibition, with reverence, and a sort of atoning care for the neglect and ill-usage of three long centuries of scorn and condemnation. In the Great Exhibition of 1869. Some of these were shown; one of them a cope of.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.