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No 25 Waistcoats
This article of Dress is spoken of in Early times it probably grew into use as an improvement on the Stomacher
When Sir Thos Wyatt the Leader of a Rebelliers against Queen mary was Committed to the Tower he wore a Shirt of mail under a velvet Cassock the
1553 windlace of his (1) Dagge hanging about his neck when he was beheaded he put off his Gowne & Doublet & his waistcoat Speed
1648 Whitlocke tells us in his account of the beheading of the Earl of Holland that he pulled off his Gown & doublet having on him a waistcoat of white Satin p.
1680 would you have your lined doublet or your Trusse & wast doublet Alveary w Doublet this seems to be the origin of waistcoat & a transition from the Stomacher of Elder times
1 Dagge Pistol Firelocks were not yet used the windlace must have been for winding up the spring of the wheel-lock