_Clerical Costume_.--In the Diary of the Rev. Giles Moore, rector of
Hosted Keynes, in Sussex, published in the first volume of the Sussex
Archæological Collections, there is the following account of his
dress:--
"I went to Lewis and bought 4 yards of broad black cloth at
16s. the yard, and two yards and 1/2 of scarlet serge for a
waistcoat, 11s. 1d., and 1/4 of an ounce of scarlet silke,
1s."
and this appears to have been his regular dress. Will any of your
correspondents inform me whether this scarlet serge waistcoat was
commonly worn by the clergy in those times, namely, in 1671?