Article  12  orders  the  use  of  a  surplice  and
hood  in  the  choir,  in  similar  churches.  Article
13  orders  that  every  minister  in  his  ministra-
tion is  to  wear  a  surplice.  It  has  been  main-
tained that  these  three  Articles,  occurring
thus  in  the  middle  of  a  whole  group,  have
overridden  the  Ornaments  Rubric  {q.v.)  by
virtue  of  royal  authority  attached  to  them,
and  a  provision  of  the  Act  of  Uniformity
(1559,  1  Eliz.  c.  2).  The  Privy  Council  has  in
the  past  accepted  this  view ;  but  it  is  not
now  generally  adopted,  since  historical  in-
vestigation seems  to  prove  that  there  was,
as  above  stated,  no  royal  sanction  given  to
the  Articles  as  a  whole,  and  none  therefore  to
these  three.  The  Advertisements  fell  into
their  place  in  the  series  above  mentioned,
and  were  appealed  to  from  time  to  time  along
with  the  Royal  Articles.  A  later  generation,
misinterpreting  Parker's  preface,  was  in-
clined at  times  to  assign  to  them  royal
authority,  and  the  policy  about  vestments
which  they  laid  down  was  adopted  in  one  of
the  canons  of  1604.  This  canon,  however,
is  not  the  last  word  upon  the  matter,  since
the  rule  for  the  ornaments  of  the  minister
is  the  present  Ornaments  Rubric,  which
dates  from  1662,  and  was  then  enacted,  in
spite  of  all  that  had  gone  before.
[w.  H.  F.]

Gee  and  Hardy,  Documents,  p.  467  ;  Dixon,
Hist,  of  Ch.  of  Eng.,  vi.  49-64,  89  seqq.  ;  Frere,
Hist,  of  Eng.  Ch.,  15SS-1625,  p.  118;  Prin-
ciples of  Rel.  Ceremonial,  c.  xiv.  ;  Convocation
Report,  Ornaments,  No.  416,  1908.
AELFEAH  (St.  Alphege)  (954-1012),  Arch-
bishop of  Canterbury,  was  a  monk  of
Deerhurst,  Glos.  (where  an  early  window  in
the  ancient  church  still  commemorates  him).
