The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1886-01-05
Gloves.


OF German glovers, who carried on a trade
between their own country and Germany,
solicited the protection of King Eshelred
ii, by presenting him with five pairs of
gloves.
One Of the earliest uses of gloves was to
protect the wrist, upon which lords and
ladies carried their favorite hawk when
they rode on u summer morn to catch a
heron or a crane. Wnen the Earl of Ok
ford returned from Italy he brought with
him gloves, sweete bagges, perfumed
leather jerkin, and other pleasant things"
In order TO make his court with Qleen
Elizlbeth he presented her Majesty with
pair of perfumed gloves, trimmed only
with four tufts, or roses, of colored silk.
Tue Qaeen took such pleasure in those
gloves that she was pictured with them
upon her hands, and for many years after
il was called the Earl of 0xford's per
fume'" L suppose most of my readers
are familiar with Leigh Hunts pleasant
little poem about King Francis and the
lions. and how the king reprOved the van
ity and heartlessness of Uas belle ddns saas
mara, who flung her glove into the arena
IN order TO make her lover 90 and fetch 1t.
But here is astory of Shakespeare and the
Mliden Q leen that is perhaps less gene
rally known. Queen Elizabeth is said TO
have been the wearer of gloves of a very
costly description. Shakespeare was once
acting in her presence the part of a king
OF his own making; and so careful was
he OF the illusion OF the scene that he for
got all other things besides. The Virgin
Q leen resolved to put him to the proof
and as the mimic king passed before her,
she dropped one of her gloves. Shake
r all Il Ill -
INN stately paused, and with the words
that, although bent on this high embassy,
vet stOOp we 10 pick up our cousins glove,
h. presented it TO the real queen, then
passed on. DIsrael talks of glove money
and defines it as money given to servants
to buy gloves but DR. D1ran gives it an
other Specification, aud tells at the same
tins good story OF Henry Wits chan
cellor. Sir rnomls More. "Gloves," says
the Dlctor. ''wers popular Nav Yelr's
gifts. or sometimes glove money in place
OF them; occasionally these gloves carried
gold pieces in them. Wnen Sir Thomas
More was Chancellor he decided a case in
favour OF Mrs. Croaksr, against Lord
Arundel: the former on the following
New Years Day gratefully presented the
jude with pair OF gloves with forty an
gels in them (f2l) ut would be against
good Manners said the Chancellor, ito
fOrslke a gentlewoman's new years gift,
aud l accept the gloves. Tle Eaiag you
will bestow elsewhere" TIE king and his
fayolrite Wolsley, when they nude that
magnificent display on the Field of the
Cloth of Gold, wore gloves lined with
white silk and most beautifully ornament
ed with embroidery and precious stones. 10
such mare historical gossip as this one
Is not expected to follow exact chrome
logical order, and l may be excused
il L 90 back from Henry VIII to the
fifteenth century Edward son of Richard,
Duke of York, was one of the cruelest
usurpers that ever disgraced a throne.
Not content with robbing Henry vi of his
kingdom, he insulted and murdered every
msmber of the royal family upon whom
he could lay hands. His reception of the
high-spirited young Edward, Is a stain
upoa his character that nothing can eface
After the battle of Tewkesbury. the young
prince Edward was brought into the kings
presence, who asked him how he dared 70
come into his kingdom in armsi He boldly
replied: i came to recover my fathers
kingdom upon which Edward struck him
in the face with his gauntlet, aud the
Dukes Clarence and Gloucester, with their
attendants instantly fell upon him with
their swords and killed him" Was ever
knightly glove put to SO ignoble use be
fore or sincei But the glove was moi
always used merely as hand covering OIL
fashionable adornment They were
made an important part of grave ceremo
mails, as in the case Of investitures, or IL
comforting dignities, or on other great and
solemn occasions. DIsraei gives a shori
account of ceremony in which glove
plays a remarkable part He says--The
unfortunate Conraiin was deprived of hi:
crown and his life by the usurper, Main
troy. When, having assembled the scaffold