Word: cassocks
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...clergyman educated at Cambridge and following the fortune of other clergymen, came to Massachusetts in the early period, he was probably a Puritan of their stamp, that is. not a dissenter. Puritan ministers of that day are represented in pictures as wearing a somewhat closely fitting cloak, covering a cassock, with a broad linen collar and a skull cap. No mistake could be made in regard to the garments covering the lower part of body...