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V. Observations on the various Fashions of Hats, Bonnets, or Coverings for the head, chiefly from the reign of King Henry VIII.thto the eighteenth Century; by John Adey Repton, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter addressed to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2012

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If you consider there is any thing curious or amusing in the enclosed Drawings and Observations on Hats, you will oblige me by laying them before the Society of Antiquaries on some evening when their attention may not be directed to any more valuable Communication.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1832

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page 169 note a Fellen þaet, a felt or woollen hat, &c.

page 170 note b Archaeol. vol. xxi.

page 170 note c See a curious description of the dress in Dibdin's Typ, Antiq. vol. ii. p. 218.

page 171 note d Archaeol. vol. ix.

page 171 note e See Plate XXXVI.

page 171 note f And sometimes the crown; see Plate XXXVII. fig. 2.

page 171 note g See Plate XXXV. fig. 1 to 14.

page 172 note f See Plate XXXV. We also find specimens of hoods.

page 174 note h These hats of the quakers are placed in the middle of Plate XLI. to shew how far they appear to correspond with those which prevailed in the reign of Charles I. or II.

page 175 note l See Every-day Book.

page 175 note m See Fox's Book of Martyrs, published in the reign of Elizabeth.

page 176 note n Vide Strype's Ann. of Queen Elizabeth.

page 177 note o Second Series, Letter cccix.

page 177 note p See note in Reed's Shakspeare.

page 177 note q See Ellis's Letters, Second Series, ccviii.

page 178 note s From a translation of Don Quevedon's Visions, 1656, the coptanck hat appears at that time to have been considered as old fashioned. “Ye can't see a high-crown’d hat, or a thread-bare cloak, &c. nay not so much as a reverend matron, well stricken in years, but presently ye cry this or that's of the mode or date of Queen Dick.”

page 179 note t See Plates XXXVIII. and XL.

page 180 note t The Duke of Buckingham was Lord High Admiral.

page 181 note u See PI. XL. figg. 31, 32, 33.

page 181 note v Stukeley's It. Curiosa.

page 181 note w Montera-ro, Spanish, a Hunter or Horseman's Cap.—Cole's Dictionary.

“His hat was like a helmet, or Spanish Montera.”—Bacon.

page 182 note x See Plate XXXVI.

page 182 note y Embassy to China, vol. ii. p. 227.

page 183 note z See Bibliog. vol. II. p. 549.

page 184 note a Gervase Matkham (1607) has given a complete description of the Horseman's apparel, by recommending “a hat which will sit close and firme upon your heade, with an indifferent narrow verge or brim; so that, in the saults or bounds of the horse, it may neither through widenesse or unwieldinesse fall from your head, nor with the breadth of the brim fall into your eies, and impeach your sight, both which are verie grosse errors.”

page 184 note b See Plate XLI.

page 184 note c See Plate XLI. figg. 7, 9, and 10.

page 189 note d Concerning pigtails and their antiquity, I suspect they are of a much later period than the reign of James the First or Charles the First. This absurd fashion continued till as late as the beginning of the present century, when by the good sense of the age they were nearly exploded.

In Plate XLII. is a sketch of a young Dragoon as he appeared about twenty-five years ago.