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[Footnote 35: See Strut's Antiquities.]
To this he adds, that many of them had more than one or two mitres,
embellished with pearls, like the head of a queen, and a staff of gold
set with jewels, as heavy as lead. He then speaks of their appearing out
of doors with broad bucklers and long swords, or with baldrics about
their necks, instead of stoles, to which their basellards were attached.
"Bucklers brode and sweardes longe,
Baudryke with baselards kene."
He then accuses them with wearing gay gowns of scarlet and green
colours, ornamented with cut-work, and for the long pykes upon their
shoes.
But so late as the year 1652 we have the following anecdote of the
whimsical dress of a clergyman. John Owen, Dean of Christ church, and
Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, is represented an wearing a lawn-band, as
having his hair powdered and his hat curiously cocked. He is described
also as wearing Spanish leather-boots with lawn-tops, and snake-bone
band-strings with large tassels, and a large set of ribbands pointed at
his knees with points or tags at the end. And much about the same time,
when Charles the second was at Newmarket, Nathaniel Vincent, doctor of
divinity, fellow of Clare-hall, and chaplain in ordinary to his majesty,
preached before him.
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