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Share of them & they were in Every house it was then that the Ladies of England became Proud & Vain in their attire and were as much Elated by the accquisition of that Finery as the French Ladies were defeated by the Loss of it Thos. Wolsingham
1348 Ladies attended Tournaments They were dressed in Pasty Colord Tunics one half being of one Color & the other half of another
Knighton
When the Empress maud fled from oxford in a snowy night she was as The Poet tells us without kirtelle or a [kenise] save Kovercheaf alle Bare vis Robt de Brume in vita Stephani
1583 The women have dublets & jerkins as the men have buttons by the Breast & made with wings welts & Pinions as mens aparrell
in Stubbes anatme. of abuses
They have their Looking glasses Carreid with them wherever they Go Their Fingers are decked with gold Silver & Precious stones their wrists with Bracelets & amlets of Gold
In Summertime ye have not any Gentle women nor yet any dray or [Pussle?] in the countrey but will Carry in their hands nosegays & Posies of flowers to smell at & will Stick two or three nosegays in their breasts before Do.
When they ride abroad they have invisaries or vizors made of made of velvet wherewith they
What Shall I say of their doublets & their Pendant Codpeices on the breast full of tags & cuts & Sleves of Sundry Colors Their Galigascons Colord Nether stockes &c Harrison p 95
I have met with Some peir Lordes so disguised that it hath passed my Skill to discern whether they were men or women Thus it hath Come to Pass that the women hath become men & the men monsters Do.
I might name a Sort of Hewes devised for the nonce as Goose - Green The [Oeirl?] in the head Do.
Sweet Cofers in the memoirs of Robt Carey Publishd 1759 we Learn that his wife was mistress of the Sweet Cofers of the Queen of James 1st. Perfumes were then so much in Fashion that the Coffers where the Queens cloths were Kept had that name
1600 Queen Elizabeths wardrobe then Consisted of the following articles as we Learn from a [Brass] in the Posession of Cravenard [Esqr] Printed in Nichols's Progress of Q Elizabeth Vol 2
| Robes------------------------- 99 | Cloakes & Safeguards ------- 31 |
| French Gownes 102 | Saufegardes --------------------- 13 |
| Round Gownes 67 | Saufegardes & Juppes ---- 43 |
| Loose Gownes 100 | Dublettes ------------------------- 85 |
| Kirtels ------------------------ 126 | Lappe Mantles ----------------- 18 |
| Forepartes ------------------ 136 | Fannes ---------------------------- 27 |
| Peticoats ------------------- 125 | Pantobles ------------------------ 9 Pantoufles ? |
| Cloakes --------------------- 96 |
owes
skimskin
Eysing Puffs
a Paire of white Sylke Sypres a breadth of Cyprus Silk
a Garded girdle
a Lily pot with a Lily in it
a Rundel
a Laire (Layer) saltspoon ? a Basin & Laire is it not a waiter or Stand
a Gallie cup
a Pin pillow (a Pineu[priés])