The  bishops  apparently  abandoned  the  use
of  rochet  and  chimere  as  their  ordinary  dress
after  the  Great  Rebellion,  and  adopted  the
ordinary  clerical  dress  which  continued  in
use  till  late  in  the  eighteenth  century,  when
bishops  and  the  higher  dignitaries  adopted
the  short  cassock  ('apron')  under  a  coat,
while  the  clergy  generally  adopted  the  pro-
fessional dress,  common  to  them  with  doctors
and  lawyers,  viz.  black  with  a  white  neck-
cloth, to  which  later,  in  some  cases,  was
added  the  '  stand-up '  collar.  About  the
middle  of  the  nineteenth  century  the  plain
('M.B.')  waistcoat  came  into  use,  and  some-
what later  the  Roman  collar.  As  to  the  hair
both  on  head  and  face  (apart  from  the  tonsure,


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which  in  England  was  disused  from  the
sixteenth  century),  the  clergy  have  followed
the  lay  fashions,  while  lagging  somewhat  be-
hind the  rest  of  the  world.  They  grew  their
hair  long  after  about  1650,  and  adopted  the
wig  early  in  the  eighteenth  century,  and  in
England  at  least  retained  it  in  some  cases
till  after  the  middle  of  the  nineteenth  century.
