Show OLD AIDS TO tiie THE I 1 TRADE severe laws have deen been passed in england to protect Var various iOLAS makers of headgear 1 hots flats have in england been subject to very bovere sovere protective enactments tho the blocked beaver hat for ing instance tance in imported ported by str sir walter Itil raleigh leigh froni from tile tho low IONA countries won avon its way vay HO rapidly that jn in 1571 queen Ellz elizabeth alWi passed on an net act to protect tho in making alting of thrummed thrum med cap made from wool woo for the advantage of tho the landed proprietors prie tors whose choso sheep furnished tit the e material the statute provided bat t every person except ladles andrews and jews fews why were jews excil mP shall on sundays and ami abear ear on ills his head a cap of velvet wool made in E england penalty as ip per day about it a century later tile the law for which there la is nothing too high or oil too low having mcd foxed mens shoes turned its attention once more to 0 their hats and soon put tt a check on all 11 in tile the trade by requiring every vender of hats to take out a license under tinder a heavy pen penalty alty subsequently a stamp duty daty was imposed po ed on all hats which were ivere officially c marked inside where the ma makers kers name now appears the penalty for a hat without it a stamp was CIO 10 and the penalty for forging a hat stamp was death whence no doubt the modern custom of the man who goes to church st sits t down looks into his hat to read bin it s In makers akers name |