| The chrisom was the linen cloth, or garment, which the priest put on the recently baptized child. |
| It is said to depict a chrisom child, i.e., a chrisom is a child's white robe worn at baptism, used as a shroud if the infant dies within a month. |
| Though not required by the Protestant prayer book, chrisom cloths were still standard equipment, at least in the Elizabethan period. |
| This white vesture was worn for a month after the child's birth, and if it died before the expiration of that time, it had the chrisom for its shroud. |
| Elizabeth was placed in his household and carried the chrisom, or baptismal cloth, at his christening. |
| The unbinding of the Chrisom took place with great ceremony eight days later at the royal estate at Wedmore. |
