Identifier: parishprieststhe00cutt (find matches)
Title: Parish priests and their people in the Middle Ages in England
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Cutts, Edward Lewes, 1824-1901
Subjects: Clergy -- England Great Britain -- Church history 1066-1485 Great Britain -- Social life and customs 1066-1485
Publisher: London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge New York: E. & J.B. Young
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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canon enjoining a well-marked tonsure, and forbidding long hair, andworldly fashions of dress and ornaments. It is not worth while to trouble the reader witha long series of laws and canons ; it will be enoughto quote one which condescends to be argumentativeand persuasive as well as minatory. It is from theInjunctions of John Stratford, Archbishop of Canter-bury, made at St. Pauls Cathedral, in A.D. 1342. The external costume often shows the internal characterand condition of persons; and although the behaviour of FURNITURE AND DRESS. 165 clerks ought to be an example and pattern of lay people,yet the abuses of clerks, which have prevailed more thanusual in these days, in tonsure, clothing, horse trappings,and other things, have created an abominable scandal amongthe people; because persons holding ecclesiastical dignities,rectories, honourable prebends, and benefices with cureof souls, even men in Holy Orders, scorn to wear thetonsure, which is the crown of the kingdom of heaven and
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Consecration of Archbishop Thomas Becket. (MS., Royal 2 B., vii.) of perfection, and distinguish themselves by hair spreadingto the shoulders in an effeminate manner, and walk aboutclad in a military rather than a clerical dress, with anouter habit very short and tight-fitting, but excessivelywide, with long sleeves which do not touch the elbow;their hair curled and perfumed (?), their hoods with lappetsof wonderful length ; with long beards, rings on theirfingers, and girded belts studded with precious stones ofwonderful size, their purses enamelled and gilt with various i66 PARISH PRIESTS AND THEIR PEOPLE, devices, and knives openly hanging at them like swords,their boots of red and green peaked and cut in many ways ;with housings to tlieir saddles, and horns hanging fromtheir necks; their capes and cloaks so furred, in rashdisregard of the canons, that there appears little or nodistinction between clergymen and laymen ; whereby theyrender themselves unworthy through their demerits

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