Draft of a paper concerning the history of dress, undated (Series 87.02) - No. 0023

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No 5                             Hose

Hose were the Garments that Coverd the Legs & the thigh (1)  Goldman distinguishes the Leg from the thigh hose,  a hose or neather stock that is a Stocking he calls Caliga, hose for the thighs Cruralia  Breeches he calls Long hose
King Henry 8th did wear only cloth hose or hose cut out of ell broad Taffety  Howe 807 or that (adds he) by great chance there Came a pair of [Spories?] & Silk Stockings  Sir thos Gresham gave a pair as a great Present to K Edwd 6th  Mrs montagu Queen Elizabeths Silk weaver made a Pair for her majesty in her second year & supplied her with them afterwards  in 1564 The art of Knitting was Learnd by unraveling a Pair of knit worsted Stockings & in 1599 Wm Lee master of arts invented the Stocking Loom
The Chamberlain in the art of Carving is orderd to "Strik up his sovereigns hosen mannerly & tie them up"   it is probable that these hosen were in one Peice which sewd both in Legs & thighs   had there been Two they would have been noted in the Enumerators
About the Reign of James 1st the hose were devided into two garments the neather Stocks for the Legs Generaly no doubt made of Knitted ware & the over Stocks for the thighs
in the Easter Grayorum  p 30 it is said that no Knight shall wear his hands in the Pockets of his Great Rolled hose   with the Spanish Wheel Pockets are a late invention   These Great Rolled hose were Probably Trunk breeches spread out by a Rowl the old English name for a womans hoop
1603      James 1st has his hose tied above the Knees on his Great seal also 1625   Ch 1st 
1633       Soon after this Period Hose seem to have swelld out & taken upon themselves the         change which in due time Converted the overstock into Breeches   Whitock in describing the dresses of the gramd  masquers of Grays the  inn of Court Says , mentions Trunk hose & Large white Silk Stocking up to their Trunk hose
 a sloppe or Hose   Dutch  Sloet hose   Menshieu
1090?      Wm Rufus says a Poet+  Reprovd his chamberlain for bringing hose that did not cost a mark?
 (1) in his dictionary Cambridge 1674     
 +  Robert of Gloucester