for the Britons: Colours of Anglican vestments?

[Fortescue-Smythe]

Just got my Hell Dorado Occidentaux box, and I was agonising over how to paint them. My reasoning so far runs as follows: got to paint that gipsy girl with red hair and a green dress, 'cos you can't go witchier that that. Which leaves me with green as the unifying colour for my company.
All well and good, but the company has spiritual guidance in the shape of this feller, whose paintscheme I do find singularily uninspired.

And not at all green.
Now, I vaguely rememer that C of E clerics/priest/whatever you call the fellers on the pulpit have ceremonial vestments in bright green, white and gold. Does memory serve me right, here, or is that just my senility kicking in? Because if they do, my company is going to represent Albion's bold foray into the nether realms, for fun, profit and general Lord Flashheart-ishness.
Incidentally, if anyone's got a picture, that would be just grand.

[Plynkes]

If memory serves they usually dress mostly in white, but that scarf thing around their neck is sometimes green and/or gold. The capes or shawl-type things they sometimes wear seem to come in just about any colour..

But I'm afraid that chap has nothing about him that says "Anglican Vicar." He looks like he's from the Spanish Inquisition or something. He has way too much of a whiff of Popery to him to pass as Church of England.


When's this set, anyway? If it's meant to be the time of the Spanish Conquest of the New World then England was Catholic then anyway, so Anglicanism don't come into it.

[Westfalia Chris]

I´ve heard that it is 30YW, with Magdeburg becoming a gate to hell after one of the sackings... curious, that, I always thought Ingolstadt deserved that honour. What with Purgatory et al.

[Overlord]

He looks like he's from the Spanish Inquisition or something.

I didnt expect the Spanish Inquisition!

.......Cardinal, the comfy chair!!  :twisted:

[fastolfrus]

You do get some very "high church" Anglicans who happily wave burning handbags.

[Fortescue-Smythe]

Yep, 30YW after the famous sack of Magdeburg in 1631, so it would be the late 1630s, I reckon.
Pity about the 'whiff of popery' (nicely put), as that would mean I couldn't deviate too much from the black, purple and scarlet pallette. Or do you think that he might pass as a Jesuit? He might look nice in orange robes.

[Plynkes]

He certainly looks like my (Protestant-biased) image of a Jesuit! But I have no idea what a real one looks like.

Actually "High Church" C of E is the closest thing to being Catholic without actually being Catholic, so I say if you want him to be an Anglican then go for it. During the 17th Century lots of Anglican Churches were smashed up by angry mobs for being too "Popish." Folks would take axes to the statues and paintings. So in that time frame Anglicans can be either very Catholic-looking if traditionalist, or the other extreme and very austere and plain. It was a time of great upheaval and change. So go for your life and make him what you like, I say.

[Fortescue-Smythe]

Right, so 'high curch' C o f E he's going to be. It's not as if hell is a historical setting anyway.  
Thanks for the input.