Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-18
HATS oFP.

grandee of Spain is privileged to wear
HIS hat in his sovereign's presence for
certain time, carefully graduated accord.
ing to bis rank. John de Csurcy, the con.
querer of Ulster, won the same boon from
King John by frightening the knights sent
by Phiifp oi-F France TO call John to ao.
count for the murder, out of the field, and
then giving taste of his quality by plac.
ing his helmet on post, and cleaving it
through with his sword, the weapon defy
ing any one but its owner t. draw it out of
the post again. This staiwart champions
descendants were won't to assert their
privilege by keeping their heads covered
for moment or SO in the royal presence
but at one of George the Thirds drawing.
rooms the then Lord of Kinsale chose to
wear his head-gear 30 long that the old
Kings attention was drawn to his unman-
nerly bravado. 1.-THE gentleman" said
he, has right to be covered before me,
but even King John could give him no
right to be covered before ladies'"
At the trial of Mrs. Turner as an Access
sorry to the murder of Sir Thomas Over.
bury, Sir Edward Coke ordered the prisoner
TO remove her hat, saying ga woman
may be covered in church, but not when
arraigned in Court of justice" The &C.
cused tartly commenting on the sipgularity
that she might wear her hat in the pres.
ence OF God, but not in the PRESENCE of
man, Coke replied "For the reason that
man with weak intellects cannot discover
the secrets which are known to God and,
therefore, In investigating truth, where
human life is in peril, and one is charged
with taking life from another, the Court
should see all obstacles removed. Besides.
the countenance is often an index to the
mind, and accordingly it is fitting that the
hat should be removed, and Herewith the
shadow which it casts upon your face"
Mrs. Turner's hat was taken off, but she
was allowed for modesty's sake to cover her
hair with a handkerchief.
Chief Justice Giynn did not find the
Quakers so amenable to the order of the
Court, when at Launceston Assizes, in
1856, they made their first public protest
against uncovering the head. Upon Fox
| and his companions in misfortune being
brought into Court, the Judge sbade them
! put off their hats. Instead of obeying, Fox
asked for scriptural instance If q maeis.
trate commanding prisoners to put off their
hats. The Chief Justice inquired in return
il hats were mentioned at all in the Bible
Ges," answered Fox, ''in tie third of
Daniel, where thou mayest read that the
three children were cast into tie fiery fur.
mace by Nebuchadnezzsr's command, with
their coats, their hose and Their hats on.
Here was proof that even heathen king
| allowed men to wear hats in his presence
Not condescending to argue the matter
further. Glynn cried, take them away,
js'ier," and they were taken away,
ard thrust among thieves ga great
While" When Penn and other Quakers
appeared at the Old Bailey to answer their
! delnqIencies, they entered the Court GOV.
cred, somebody removing Their: hats for
them. Upon fairy getting iusids, the
Court directed them to put their hats on,
and no sooner had they done 90 than the
Recorder demanded # they did not know
they were in Kings Court. Penn replied
that he knew it was Court, and supposed
il to be the Kings, but he did not think
putting on nat showed any respect
| whereupon he was fined forty marks, and
remarked that he and his friesds had come
into Court uncovered, and in putting ON
their hats again they had only obeyed or.
ders, therefore if any one was to be fined,
it ought to be the Bench. We suppose the
Mine Court of the Forest of Dean was not
q Kings Court, since witnesses before it
were permitted to keep their caps ON while
giving their evidence, that lie, if they
claimed to be free miners. n-[Au the
Year Round.