[99] In Thackeray’s Catherine, already quoted, a character appears with “a little shabby beaver cocked over a large tow-periwig.” Still further on he tells us that one of his principal personages “mounted a large chestnut-colored orange-scented pyramid of horse-hair.” Indeed, we have reason to believe that the judges and the bar in England still wear wigs manufactured out of the latter article.
[100] To show, by a further instance, the employment of another article than hair for the manufacture in question some time ago. Thackeray, in his Book of Snobs, chapter xxxiv., tells us of a London “coachman in a tight silk-floss wig.”
[101] 2 Henry VI., iv. 8.
[102] A sum estimated at about seven million francs of modern money.
[103] Fearless and stainless.
[104] Gilt door.
[105] “A guarded prisoner is not bound by any oath, nor can he be held to any vow made under compulsion.”
[106] For the preceding articles of this series, the reader is referred to The Catholic World for December, 1868, and June, 1870.
[107] See Myvyrian, vol. i. p. 150.
[108] Trioed inis Prydain, vol. iii. s. 1.