CHARLES I.

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CHARLES 1.

“ Embroider’d stockings, cutwork smocks and shirts.”

Ben Jonson.

“ Une mode a a peine de'truit une autre mode, qu’elle est abolie par une plusnouvelle, qui cede elle-meme a celle qui la suit et qui no sera pas la derniere; telleest notre legerete '.”—La Bruyire.

Huffs may literally be said to have gone out with James I.His son Charles is represented on the coins of the two first yearsof his reign in a stiff starched ruff; 64 in the fourth and fifth we see

Fig. 115,

Falling collar of the seventeenth century. After Abraham Bosse.

the ruff unstarched, falling down on his shoulders, 55 and afterwards,the falling band (Fig. 115) was generally adopted, and worn by allclasses save the judges, who stuck to the ruff as a mark of dignityand decorum, till superseded by the peruke. 56

Even loyal Oxford, conscientious to a hair’s-breadth—alwaysbehind the rest of the world—when Whitelocke, in 1635, addresses

s * See Snelling’s “ Coins,” pi. ix. 8,9, 10.

“ Ibid. pi. ix. 5, 6, 11.sa Evelyn, describing n medal of KingCharles I., struck in 1033, says he wears

“ a falling band, which new mode suc-ceeded the cumbersome ruff; but neitherdid the bishops or the judges give it upso soon, the Lord Keeper Finch being, Ithink, the very first.”

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