58. A Woman of the Time of James II. " 380 59. A Man of the Time of William and Mary 1689-1702 384 60. A Woman of the Time of William and Mary " 392 61. A Man of the Time of Queen Anne 1702-1714 396 62. A Woman of the Time of Queen Anne " 400 63. A Man of the Time of George I. 1714-1727 408 64. A Woman of the Time of George I. 1714-1727 412 65. A Man of the Time of George II. 1727-1760 416 66. A Woman of the Time of George II. " 424 67. A Man of the Time of George III. 1760-1820 432 68. A Woman of the Time of George III. " 434 69. A Man of the Time of George III. 1760-1820 436 70. A Woman of the Time of George III. " 438 Illustrations in Black and White FACING PAGE A Series of Thirty-two Half-tone Reproductions of Engravings by Hollar 358 A Series of Sixty Half-tone Reproductions of Wash Drawings by the Dightons--Father and Son--and by the Author 440 Numerous Line Drawings by the Author throughout the Text. WILLIAM THE FIRST Reigned twenty-one years: 1066-1087. Born 1027. Married, 1053, Matilda of Flanders. THE MEN [Illustration: {A man of the time of William I.; a shoe}] Why France should always give the lead in the matter of dress is a nice point in sartorial morality--a morality which holds that it takes nine tailors to make a man and but one milliner to break him, a code, in fact, with which this book will often have to deal. Sartorially, then, we commence with the 14th of October, 1066, upon which day, fatal to the fashions of the country, the flag of King Harold, sumptuously woven and embroidered in gold, bearing the figure of a man fighting, studded with precious stones, was captured. William, of Norse blood and pirate traditions, landed in England, and brought with him bloodshed, devastation, new laws, new customs, and new fashions. Principal among these last was the method of shaving the hair at the back of the head, which fashion speedily died out by reason of the parlous times and the haste of war, besides the utter absurdity of the idea. Fashion, however, has no sense of the ridiculous, and soon replaced the one folly by some other extravagance. William I. found the Saxons very plainly dressed, and he did little to alter the masculine mode. He found the Saxon ladies to be as excellent at embroidery as were their Norman sisters, and in such times the spindle side was content to sit patiently at home weaving while the men were abroad ravaging the country.