This is going back a bit to when 'that mat' was being discussed, and
mention was made of the book by Christine Springett of prickings from the
works of Misses Sivewright and Pope. I referred to the pricking of the cape
(it was actually 'cope' in the book) and that there was no photograph of the
Not having heard the word before, I'd assumed that a cope was a cape,
probably to go round the shoulders, but I just happened across the word
'cope' this morning, and the definition given is priest's long
cloaklike
vestment. So the pricking isn't for what I thought it was, but that
doesn't
make
