The Tories often regarded with mistrust any persons who did not use hair-powder. The Rev. J. Charles Cox, LL.D., F.S.A., the eminent antiquary, relates a good story respecting his grandfather. "So late as 1820," says Dr. Cox, "Major Cox of Derby, an excellent Tory, declined for some time to allow his son Edward to become a pupil of a well-known clerical tutor, for the sole reason that the clergyman did not powder, and wore his hair short, arguing that he must therefore, be a dangerous revolutionist." In 1869 the tax on hair-powder was repealed, when only some 800 persons paid it, producing about £1,000 per year. Men wearing Muffs. The muff in bygone times was worn by men as well as women. Several writers state that it was introduced into England in the reign of Charles II., but this is not correct, for, although it is not of great antiquity, it can certainly be traced back to a much earlier period. Most probably it reached us from France, and when it came into fashion it was small in size. The earliest representation of a muff that has come under our notice occurs in a drawing by Gaspar Rutz (1598) of an English lady, and she wears it pendant from her girdle. A few years later in the wardrobe accounts of Prince Henry of Wales, a charge is made for embroidering two muffs. The entries occur in 1608, and are as follow:--"One of cloth of silver, embroidered with purles, plates, and Venice twists of silver and gold; the other of black satten, embroidered with black silk and bugles, viz., for one £7, the other 60s." Muffs were usually ornamented with bunches of gay ribbons, or some other decorations, and were generally hung round the neck with ribbons. Several poems and plays of the olden time contain references to men using muffs. One of the earliest, if not the first, to mention a man wearing a muff, occurs in an epistle by Samuel Rowlands, written about 1600. It is as follows:-- "Behold a most accomplished cavalier That the world's ape of fashion doth appear, Walking the streets his humour to disclose, In the French doublet and the German hose. The _muffes_, cloak, Spanish hat, Toledo blade, Italian ruff, a shoe right Spanish made." A ballad, describing the frost fair on the Thames in the winter of 1683-4, mentions amongst those present:-- "A spark of the Bar with his cane and his _muff_." In course of time the muff was increased in size, until it was very large. Dryden, in the epilogue of "The Husband his own Cuckstool," 1696, refers to the _monstrous muff_ worn by the beau. Pepys made a point of being in fashion, but in respect to the muff he was most economical. He says he took his wife's last year's muff, and it is pleasing to record that he gallantly bought her a new one. [Illustration: MAN WITH MUFF, 1693. (_From a Print of the Period._)]