[8] Sir John Fielding, the late active police magistrate.
[9] Coe’s father, the well-known blacksmith and alderman, now no more.
Whilst we are discussing the subject of hair, we ought not to forget that, according to Lyson’s Environs of London,
THE FIRST PRELATE THAT WORE A WIG
was Archbishop Tillotson. In the great dining-room of Lambeth Palace, he says, there are portraits of all the Archbishops, from Laud to the present time, in which may be observed the gradual change of the clerical habit, in the article of wigs. Archbishop Tillotson was the first prelate that wore a wig, which then was not unlike the natural hair, and worn without powder. In 1633, 21 James 1st,
THE OXFORD SCHOLARS WERE PROHIBITED FROM
WEARING BOOTS AND SPURS.
“Care was taken,” says Wood, “that formalities in public assemblies should be used, which, through negligence, were now, and sometime before, left off. That the wearing of boots and spurs also be prohibited, ‘a fashion’ (as our Chancellor saith in his letters) rather befitting the liberties of the Inns of Court than the strictness of an academical life, which fashion is not only usurped by the younger sort, but by the Masters of Arts, who preposterously assume that part of the Doctor’s formalities which adviseth them to ryde ad prædicandum Evangelium, but in these days implying nothing else but animum deserendi studium.” It was therefore ordered, “that no person that wears a gown wear boots; if a graduate, he was to forfeit 2s. 6d. for the first time of wearing them, after order was given to the contrary; for the second time 5s., and so toties quoties. And if an
UNDERGRADUATE, WHIPPING,
Or other punishment, according to the will of the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors, for every time he wore them.” And in 1608, when