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who were
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A schedule was appended in which the costumes prescribed for all sorts and conditions of men were set forth. In the Star Chamber on June 12th, 1600, my Lord Keeper gravely admonished the judges to look to all sorts of abuses--
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Solicitors and pettifoggers,
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Gentlemen that leave hospitality and housekeeping and hide in cities and borough towns,
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Masterless men that live by their sword and their wit, meddlers in princes' matters and libellers, and last, but not least,
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All was in vain, if we are to believe the fierce invective of Stubb's _Anatomie of Abuses_.
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There is now, he groans,
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It was horrible to hear that shirts were sold at £10 a piece, and
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After this aught else were anti-climax, and so for the women he can only say they were worse than the men. A new order of things came in with the next reign, for the act Jac. I. c. 25, sec. 45, repealed at one stroke all statutes against apparel. In Scotland they kept up the game some time longer, but one need not pursue the subject there, though a curious statute of the Scots James II. (1457) must have a word. It provided that
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(forfeiture of the hood). In Ireland there was a law (says Spenser) which
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another
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which practice is straightway forbidden. Excess or bravery of apparel is condemned, and no one is to wear a dress
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Again, it is provided that children or servants are not to have ornamental apparel. Here is an individual case. Robert Coles, in March 1634, for drunkenness is disfranchised and condemned for a whole year to
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--a very unromantic scarlet letter! These things, too, passed away, but in the Maine Liquor Law of 1851, one traces the revival of the old idea. In England the thing lived not again. Under the Commonwealth public opinion enforced a