the original Calendar in this MS.; though some of them are added by later hands. The Feasts in brackets are found only in printed books :—

With regard to Colours according to the York Use, very little can be determined. There is no general rubric on the subject. The scattered rubrics bearing on the point are subjoined in a collected form.

I have also added the very imperfect rubric of the Sarum Missal, with a notice of a rubric from a book of Lincoln Use.

RUBRICS FROM THE MISSALS AS TO COLOURS
ACCORDING TO THE YORK USE.

ADVENTU IN SABBATO QUATTUOR TEMPORUM.

All Editions and MSS.-Hæc Lectio sequens legatur in medio Chori ab aliquo Vicario seniori in superpelliceo et capa rubea serica.

Sequatur in medio Chori a duobus Vicariis in capis sericis. [rubeis-MS. C] Tractus.

DOMINICA QUARTA ADVENTUS DOMINI.

MS. C.-Sequentia subscripta cantetur a quattuor Vicariis in capis nigris.

IN DIE NATALIS DOMINI.

Ad Missam in Aurora.

MS. D.-Sacerdos cum suis ministris ad Altare et Rectores Chori omnes sint in vestimentis albis.

SEXTA DIE IN NATIVITATE DOMINI.

MS. D.-Chorus regatur a duobus in capis sericis albis.

DOMINICA IN RAMIS PALMARUM.

MS. D.-Prælatus si præsens fuerit induat se stola et capa serica alba.

FERIA SEXTA. IN PARASCEVE DOMINI.

All Editions and MSS.-Interim Lectio ista (sc. prima) a Presbytero in nigra capa, legatur.

Tractus a duobus Vicariis in capis nigris, cantetur.

And so for 2nd Lection and Tract.

IN SABBATO SANCTE PASCHÆ.

Ad benedictionem ignis.

Editions and MSS.--Prælatus sive Executor officii, sacris vestibus et capa serica alba indutus.

At Alleluya.

MSS. C and D.-Duo Vicarii in capis albis cantent Alleluya [Edd.-in albis].

Quo incepto Chorus nigras capas exuant et Missam in superpelliceis expleant.

IN PURIFICATIONE BEATE MARIE VIRGINIS.

In benedictione ignis.

MS. D.-Impendatur benedictio a Sacerdote faciente Officium in alla capa induto.

EXTRACTS FROM THE LIST OF VESTMENTS, &c., BELONGING TO THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF YORK.

(York Fabric Rolls, Surtees Society, vol. xxxv.)

P. 227.-Item unus pannus del bokeram coloris blodii, pro coopertura sancti Petri in Quadragesima.

228.—Item una capa alba cum Assumpcione beatæ Virginis et capucio dorsi ex panno aureo albo, ex dono Domini Galfridi Simeon decani capellæ regiæ tunc temporis tradita et deliberata per manus domini Thomas Dalbe, Archidiaconi Richemundiæ, die Assumpcionis beatæ Virginis, 1510.

233.-Item una secta blodia del bawdekyn pro Adventu et Septuagesima.

EX RECEPCIONE REGIS RICARDI TERTII APUD EBOR. CUM REGINA ET PRINCIPE.

(York Fabric Rolls, Surtees Society, vol. xxxv., p. 210.)

Memorandum quod xxix. die mensis Augusti scilicet in Festo decollahonorifice receptus est cum processione et domius Decano et Canonicis, cum omnibus ministris dictæ ecclesiæ in capis sericis blodii coloris, &c.

tionis S. Johannis Baptistæ . . . Rex .

COLOURS ACCORDING TO THE USE OF SARUM.

(From the Rubric in the Ordinary of the Mass.)

In tempore Paschali, de quocunque dicitur Missa, nisi in Inventione sanctæ Crucis utantur Ministri vestimentis albis ad Missam. Similiter fiat in Festo Annuntiationis beatæ Mariæ et in Conceptione ejusdem, et in utroque Festo sancti Michaelis, et in Festo sancti Johannis Apostoli in hebdomada Nativitatis Domini, et per Octavas et in Octavis Assumptionis et Nativitatis beatæ Mariæ, et in commemorationibus ejusdem per totum annum, et per Octavas et in Octavis Dedicationis Ecclesiæ, [et in Festo cujuslibet Virginis.]

Rubeis vero utantur Vestimentis omnibus Dominicis per annum extra tempus Paschæ quando de Dominica agitur, et in quarta Feria in Capite jejunii, et in Cena Domini, et in utroque Festo sanctæ Crucis, in quolibet Festo Martyrum Apostolorum et Evangelistarum extra tempus

Pascha.

In omnibus autem Festis unius confessoris vel plurimorum confessorum utantur vestimentis crocei coloris.

Dr. Rock, "Church of our Fathers," vol. ii., p. 262, cites also from the Breviary, Manual, and Processional:

FERIA QUARTA IN CAPITE JEJUNII. Episcopus vel ejus Decanus vel excellentior sacerdos serica rubea, &c.

DOM. IN RAMIS PALMARUM.

in capa

Sequitur benedictio florum et frondium a sacerdote induto capa serica

rubea, &c.

FERIA QUINTA IN CENA DOMINI.

Imprimis fiat reconciliatio pœnitentium

sacerdos

(From additional MSS. British Museum, 21,974.)

This agrees with the Sarum, except that it adds to Feasts with white

in "Natali S. Johannis Baptistæ."

INDEX OF FIXED FEASTS AND COMMEMORATIONS
ACCORDING TO THE USE OF YORK.