_Surplices_ (Vol. iv., p. 192.).--In reference to the origin, use, &c.
of this and other ecclesiastical vestments, let J. Y. consult the
following authorities:--Bona, _Rerum Liturgicarum_, lib. i. cap. 24.;
Gerberti _Vetus Liturgia Alemannica_, tom. i. disquisit. iii. cap 3.;
Goar, _Rituale Graecum_; Du Cange's _Glossary_; and, _Ferrarius de Re
Vestiaria_. The information on the subject, hence to be obtained, is
briefly epitomised in the appendix to Palmer's _Antiq. of the English
Liturgy_. Let J. Y. also look at Hawkins' _Hist. Music_, vol. ii. p.
432.; vol. iii. p. 71.; likewise at Bishop Challoner's _Garden of the
Soul_, pp. x. 123. (edit. 1824); and, if he have a full abundance of
leisure, with sufficient resolution to abandon it to an undertaking so
pregnant with instructiveness, let him too, by all means, "explore with
curious search" the controversial writings of the early periods of
Puritanism, on the sadly vexed question of the habits of the clergy, to
which he will find abundant reference in all our Anglican church
histories.