Worn by Alexander Ross, 1655. DR. WILLIAM SLATER Cathedral beard. DR. JOHN DEE Born in London, 1527; died, 1608. An English mathematician, astrologer, physician, author, and magician. He wrote seventy-nine books, mostly on magic. His “pique-a-devant” beard might well “a man’s eye out-pike.” IRON AND LEATHER PATTENS, 1760 Owned by author. OAK, IRON, AND LEATHER CLOGS In Museum of Bucks County Historical Society, Penn. ENGLISH CLOGS CHOPINES Drawing from Chopines in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The tallest chopine had a sole about nine inches thick. WEDDING CLOGS These clogs are of silk brocade, and were made to match brocade slippers. The one with pointed toe would fit the brocaded shoes of the year 1760. The other has with it a high-heeled, black satin slipper of the year 1780, to show how they were worn. They forced a curious shuffling step. CLOGS OF PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH CHILD’S CLOGS About 1780. Owned by Bucks County Historical Society. COPLEY FAMILY PICTURE This group, consisting of the artist, John Singleton Copley, his wife, who was formerly a young widow, Susannah Farnham; his wife’s father, Richard Clarke, a most respected Boston merchant who was wealthy until ruined by the War of the Revolution; and the four little Copley children. Elizabeth is between four and five; John Singleton, Jr., is the boy of three, who afterwards became Lord Lyndhurst; Mary is aged two, and an infant is in the grandfather’s arms. Copley was born in 1737, and must have been about thirty-seven when this was painted in 1775. It is deemed by many his masterpiece. The portrait is owned by Mr. Amory, but is now in the custody of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It is most pronounced, almost startling, in color, every tint being absolutely frank. WEDDING SLIPPERS AND BROCADE STRIP, 1712 Owned by Mrs. Thomas Robinson Harris, of Scarboro on the Hudson, N.Y. JACK-BOOTS Owned by Lord Fairfax of Virginia. JOSHUA WARNER A Portsmouth gentleman. This portrait is now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. SHOE AND KNEE BUCKLES They are shoe-buckles, breeches-buckles, garter-buckles, stock-buckles. Some are cut silver and gold; others are cut steel; some are paste. Some of these were owned by Dr. Edward Holyoke, of Salem, and are now owned by Miss Susan W. Osgood, of Salem, Mass. WEDDING SLIPPERS Worn in 1760 by granddaughter of Governor Simon Bradstreet. Owned by Miss Mary S. Cleveland, of Salem, Mass. Their make and finish are curious; they have paste buckles. ABIGAIL BROMFIELD ROGERS Painted by Copley in Europe. Owned by Miss Annette Rogers, of Boston, Mass. SLIPPERS Worn by Mrs. Carroll with the brocade silk sacque. They are embroidered in the colors of the brocade. WHITE KID SLIPPERS, 1810 Owned by author. CHAPTER I APPAREL OF THE PURITAN AND PILGRIM FATHERS _“Deep-skirted doublets, puritanic capes Which now would render men like upright apes Was comelier wear, our wiser fathers thought Than the cast fashions from all Europe brought”_