the upper robe worn by bishops in church and in the House of Peers, to which the lawn sleeves are generally sewed. Before the Reformation, and even after it till the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the chimere was always of scarlet silk; but bishop Hooper, scrupling first at the robe itself, and then at the colour of it, as too light and gay for the episcopal gravity, the chimere was afterwards made of black satin. The archbishop's chimere has a long train.