As in three out of the four instances in which this word is used it evidently referred to fantastic dresses or the appendages to them, it may be inferred that the children of the stable were ludicrously habited, and which is the more probable if the conjecture which has been hazarded be correct, that they were employed in riding racing horses. _Gere_ was, however, sometimes used for the ornamental parts of dress, for Louis XII. king of France, is described in a letter from the Earl of Worcester in 1514, as "devysing new collers and goodly _gere_ for" the queen his bride.--Ellis's _Original Letters_, second Series, vol. i. p. 236. Mr. Markland observes "this word, _per se_, meant clothing simply. From the days of Spenser to those of Swift, when magnificence or ornament is implied, the word is accompanied with some epithet; thus 'gorgeous gear' in the former, and 'glittering birth-day gear' in the latter. See _Masking_." Shakspeare, however, uses the word in the sense which it is supposed to be employed in the text: "Let us complain to them what fools were here Disguis'd like Muscovites, in shapeless _gear_." _Love's Labour Lost_, A. 5. Sc. 2. Chaucer uses _Gere_ for articles of any kind, but in one instance he applies it to articles of dress: "And for that nothing of her olde _gere_ She shulde bring into his hous, he bad That woman should despoilen her right there Of which these ladies weren nothing glad To handle hire clothes wherin she was clad." _The Clerkes Tale_, _l._ 8248. Gibson Richard, 77, 250, 270. Gifford, Master George, 120. Gilding, paid for, 97, 123. Giles, the Groom of the Crossbows, 25, 70. Girdles, leather, paid for, for knives, 161, 168. ---- to a, for a wood-knife, 173, _bis_. Girdles, for a, 81, 208. ----, for a chain made for a, 268. These girdles were undoubtedly a splendid part of dress, and were in some cases proportionably expensive. Several notices of Girdles occur on the _Rolls of Parliament_, and in the _Testamenta Vetusta_. Among the expenses of Peter Martyr in 1547 was, "for riband for a gyrdel 1_s._ 2_d._" _Archæologia_, vol. xxi. p. 472. Glamorganshire, 69. Glasier, paid to the, 111. Glass, paid for a, 10, 15, 51. Glasses brought to the king, 18, 142. It is difficult to say whether these entries referred to looking or drinking glasses. See LOOKING-GLASSES. ---- of Rose water brought, 63. ----, a steel, 81. A mirror of polished steel. ---- with orange water, brought, 166. ---- with waters brought, 5. Glastonbury, Abbot of, 146, 224, 225. Gloucester, Abbot of, 28, 43, 106, 112, 188. Glove, Hawk's, 83. ----, shooting, for a, 46. Gloves, paid for, 138, 146, 208. ---- Spanish, for, 267.