Brass rubbing, in black heel-ball on white paper, Edmund Geste, STP Cambridge, Bishop of Rochester for 12 years, Bishop of Sarum for 5 years, 1578, with 14 lines of Latin inscription, Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, Wiltshire, by Herbert Druitt, 1876-1943
'After the Reformation, mass vestments were banned, so it not surprising on this late sixteenth century brass that Bishop Geste wears different episcopal robes. He is represented as standing, full face and bare-headed, wearing a droopoing mustache and short beard, the jeweled end of a short pastoral staff in his right hand, a clasped book, perhaps a copy of the BOOK OF Common Prayer in which he had a major role in revising, in his left. He is dressed in a rochet or long surplice, the collar of which can be seen buttoned under his chin, and the folded back cuffs at the wrists. Over this he has an outer gown, a chimere, open in frant, with puffed and full sleeves and collar. Around his neck and hanging in front is an unembroidered scarf'(Source: www.hamline.edu/brass/pdfs)
'After the Reformation, mass vestments were banned, so it not surprising on this late sixteenth century brass that Bishop Geste wears different episcopal robes. He is represented as standing, full face and bare-headed, wearing a droopoing mustache and short beard, the jeweled end of a short pastoral staff in his right hand, a clasped book, perhaps a copy of the BOOK OF Common Prayer in which he had a major role in revising, in his left. He is dressed in a rochet or long surplice, the collar of which can be seen buttoned under his chin, and the folded back cuffs at the wrists. Over this he has an outer gown, a chimere, open in frant, with puffed and full sleeves and collar. Around his neck and hanging in front is an unembroidered scarf'(Source: www.hamline.edu/brass/pdfs)
