The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-10-19
Hats on.

A grandee of Spain is privileged to
wear his hat In his sovereign's presence
for certain time, carefully graduated
according to his rank. John de Courcy,
the conQueror of Ulster, won the same
boon from KIM John by frightening
the knights sent by Philip of France to
call John to account for the murder of
Arthur, out of the field, and then giving
a taste of his quality by placing his
helmet on a post and cleaving it
through with his sword, the weapon
defying anyone but its owner to draw it
champions descendants were wont 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 80 long that the old Kings
attention was drawn to his unmannerly
bravado. "rhe gentleman" said he,
"has right to be covered before me,
out even King John could give him no
right to be covered before ladies'"
At the trial of Mrs. Turner as an ac.
cessory to tho murder of Sir Thomas
Overbury, Sir Edward Coke ordered the
woman may be covered in church, but
not when arraigned in q court of JUS
tice." The accused tartly commenting
on tho singularity that she might wear
her hat in the presence of God, but not
in the presence of man, Coke replied ::
"FOr the reason that men, with weak
intellects, can not discover the secrets
which are known to God; and, there
fore, in investigating truth, where hu-
man life is in peril, and one is charged
with taking life from another, the Court
should see ali obstacles removed. Be-
sides, 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 is cast upon
your face" Mrs. Turner's hat was
taken off, but she was allowed for
mOdcSty's sake to cover her hair with a
kerchcf.
Chief Justice Glynn did not find the
Quaker5 so amenab!c to the order of the
court, when at LaunceStOn AssiZes, in
1906, they made their first public pro-
test against uncovcrng the head, Upon
Fox and his companions in misfortune
being brought into court, the Judge babe
them put off their hats. Instead of obey
ing, Fox asked for a scriptural instance
OF magistrate commanding prisoners
TO put off their hats. The Chief Justice
inquired in return if hats were men,
toned at all in the Bible? "Yes,n an
swercd Fox, Gin tho third of Daniel,
where thou maycst read that the three
children were cast into the fiery furnace
by Ncbuchadnezzar's command, with
their coats, their hose, and their hats on.
Here was n proof that even heathen
King allowed men to wear hats in his
presence" Not condcsccnding to argue
the matter further, Glynn cried, "Take
them away, jailer,' and they were taken
away, and thrust among thieves ga
great WHILE" When Penn and other
Quakers appeared 1T the Old Bailey to
answer their delinGuencics, they en-
tered the court covered, somebody re-
moving their hats for them. Upon fairly
getting inside, the court directed them
to put their hats on, and no sooner had
they done so than the Recorder demand
ed if they did not know they were in q
Kings court? Penn replied that he knew
1t was a court, and supposed it TO be
the Kings, but he did not think putting
off hat showed any respect; ~here-
upon he was fined forty marks, and re-
marked that he and his friends had come
into court uncovered, and in putting on
their hats again they had only obeyed
orders, therefore if any one was 30 bo
fined, it ought to be the Bench. h.--LW Tie