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Show omen ur tiii: mi, hat. IT llltST AIl'LAIIhU IN FAUOK M..111. LV K1VI- lIUfdJIlhlHUAUj AU0. Tho hat proper that li. tbo raised hit was first maJe In I.ngland by Hjanlsh hatters about loll), having been Introduced Into 1 rsneo a ceutu ry earlier. The gay jouug oourtlera ol the tjueeu I.luabeth of Immortal memory shone resplendent In high crowned hats of rare Uolce, whloti, like a brilliant Italelgh, they, bung round with strings of ; earls: Klnga-loy Klnga-loy d, scribes his l.lliauetti adventurer, John Uxenham, us having on his head a "broad velvet tipaulsti bat," aud Master 1 rank Lilglt as ahadlug his delicate complexion with a "broad dove colored Hpanleb hat, with feather to match, looped up over the car with a pearl brooch." Hut hats or caps wero worn accord. Ing to tute or ulrcumstanoea, aud Hcott till us that wheu Leicester rodo bareheaded bare-headed at llUatieth'a aide ou her entry en-try Into Kimlworth his eiuulrohal ihargu of lila lordshlp'a blaox velvet bonnet, garnished with a clasp of dlu-mouda dlu-mouda and surmounted with a white Iume. Ily a statute ol 1S00 vtlvet lmbi or ca wero prohibited to all persons undir the degree of knight, and by auolber, enacted In 1571, every person, except ladies, lords, kqlghts mid gentlemen gen-tlemen havo tweuly marks a year In landed estate, waa required to wear Sundays uud holidays a home mado cap of wool, very decent and comely for all states mid degree!. Hut theio siimjluary laws wero openly dlsro gsrJed. Hlulib'.lii his "Anatomy of Abu i," dmrlbis a iluaMiig virlety ef new-fsihloued new-fsihloued heudgrar lists perking up llku tho spear or shaft of u temple; lints flat and I real ou tbo crown like the bittlements of a house, nnl round crowns with luuJs ol every color. Too variety of shape with an equal variety I of material silk, velvet, talletu, sane. net wool, and "a floe hair, which they called hi aver, fetched from be. youd the seas." Whoao had not hat of volvet or list of talleta was held of no accouut among the glided oulh of Ihe time, aud a) common a thing was this ostentation lu tbo matter of heal revering that "every serving man, countryman or other, even all ludHIerently, did wear of these hats." |
