Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-09-03

bone; but they were worn just the same,
and the general pattern remains un-
changed. There is plenty of other evil
dence that gloves are of very remote orr
| gin, although none that goes back so far.
The Anglo-Saxons wore gloves in the sew
| enth century, but the men were the ones
then to observe the custom, the ladies
covering their hands with their sleeves.
i Earlier than this Norman officials and
high personages of that country covered
their hands, and in many places in the BIZ
BILE the word "shoe" is used when scholars
| maintain it means glove"
| The glove trade is under great obliga-
tions to the church. In the year 200
Charlemagne granted to the abbot and
monks of Sithin an unlimited right of
hunting, for making their gloves and CIR
| dies of the skins of the deer they killed,
| and also for covers for their books But
| gloves had a more near connection with
| the church than the ministry of the mon
astery. They had distinctive employment
| in the rites and servives. They were worn
| by the priests officiating. The laity were
| expected to take off their gloves in church,
while ecclesiastics alone might wear them,
| a reversal of our modern fashions.
The symbolism of the church did not
forget the glove as gifted with hidden sig
nificance- Bruno, bishop of Segni, says
| that stthey are made of linen to denote
that the hands they cover should be
chaste, clean and free from all impurity."
| The gloves on the hands of Boniface VIII,
| at the time of his interment. were of
white silk, beautifully wrought with
pearls. Gloves are still used by Roman
Catholic bishops and advertised in the lists
of clerical necessaries. According to
| Saint Charles Borromeo, a bishops gloves
should have golden circle on the outside,
and this is seen on the gloves of Bishop
William of Wykeham, preserved in New
College, Oxford.
Gloves We're, in 1416, often set with
precious stones, and sufficiently valuable
as to be left as legacies. The jeweled
| gloves of st. Martial were said to have re-
buked an act of sacrilege. The gloves of
Bishop Gravesend, worked with gold and
enamel, were priced at FIVE pounds, a
| great sum in 1910. But the sturdier Bish-
op Button wore thick yellow leather gloves
| at ten pence pair.
| However, that love of luxury and of
vestments which then, as now, threatened
| to sap certain division of the church, led
to the passing of sumptuary restrictions.
The clergy "might not wear gloves" red
OF green, or striped; 'sneither ring, brooch
ornamental girdle nor gloves" Monks
| were not to wear gloves of deerskiE, but
| We're to content themselves with gloves of
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costly material for bishops and the higher
clergy, who We're then adorned with Jew
els in spite of sumptuary laws.
| Bishop Riculfus, who died in 913, left
as an important legacy pair of gloves,
and the earliest silk gloves on record were
found on the hands of Thomas Beckett
Gloves have ever been an ACCESSORY to
the dress of royalty They have place
IN the regalia. and We read of purple
| gloves ornamented with pearls and pre-
cious stones, which were deemed ensigns
of imperial dignities. They We're so init
mately connected with kingly power that
monarchs were invested with authority by
the delivery of glove.
The knights glove or gauntlet has more
that is romantic and symbolical attached
than all others. The word comes from
the early French word giant" meaning
the hand. AS distinctive article of de-
fensive dress, the gauntlet did not come
into use until the thirteenth century. In
the time of Edward a leather glove COW
cred with mail was introduced, and during
the reign of Edward III spikes of steel
were fixed to the nuckles. The gauntlet
of Edward, the Black Prince, was for
midnble affair, with its steel goads on the
back of the hand, the very appearance be
| ing caiOuinted 30 inspire terror The buff
gloves of Cromwelrs troopers We're pro
tected at the wrist by metal scale work
well arranged to break a sword blow.
Perfumed gloves were brought from Ita
ly by Edward We're, Earl of Oxford, after
his exile, and his present to Queen Eliza
beth of a pair with embroidered roses Is
mentioned in history. But the refinement
of perfumed gloves had been known fol
three centuries in France before the days
of the Virgin Queen, and in Spain the
gloves were famous for the scent impaired
to them long before her day. The luxuri
Gus court of Charles ii used perfumeI
| gloves, and those trimmed and laced a
fine as Nelrs" We're mentioned in q come
dy. Louis XIV also issued letter patent
of his "marchands maitres gantiers par
r feumeurs." In Venice, where the love o
, dress was conspicuous, perfumed glove
were introduced by dogess as early a
: 1871.
= Gloves of chicken skin were in vogue il
r the early part of the seventeenth century
, | These were used at night to give the ham
. whiteness and delicacy. Thin and deli
cate gloves were first made at Limerick
They We're so thin that they could be pu
in walnut shell. Cough says that glove
were not worn by all women before til
Reformation But this is not absolutel,
correct, for Chaucer speaks, in his transla
D ton of the ''Romaunt of the Rose" o
Idleness:
t And for to keep her hands fayrc
= OF gloves white she had pair.
$ The ladies of tine court of Catherine
Medicis carried their gloves in their hands
q or tucked them under their girdles.
Mary, Queen of Scots, wore gloves wit
richly embroidered wrists ON the mornin
r of her execution, giving them to frien,
at the last moment. They were made of
| light, cool, buff-colored leather, the elabo
4 rate embroidery ON the gauntlet bein
i, | worked with silver wire and silk of vari
Gus colors. The roses are of pale an
dark-blue, and two shades of very pal
crimson; the foliage represents trees, an,
r is composed of two shades of sestheti
l green A bird in flight, with long tail
. figures among the work.
1 The embroidered gloves for women o
S the sixteenth century were very beautiful
made of the gauntlet shape and richly EN-
v broidered on the cuff. They We're o
cheveril leather; so it was said of a man
e ''he hath a cheyeril constructions tina
!, | would stretch easily. Cheveril was mad
: of parchment, by the use of alum and til
white of eggs. Goatskin was the founds
r ton.