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British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)

Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 308

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erfly Head-dress.—The first appearance of thisstyle may be ascribed to about the year 1470; we find itrepresented upon the brass of Lady Say, 1473, wife of SirJohn Say, Broxbourne Church, Herts (Fig. 250). As will beseen, it consisted of a truncated steeple, around which wireswere arranged to carry… … 190 BRITISH COSTUME omission of a frontlet is probably due to an error on the partof the engraver. A lady of the Clopton family, represented upon a brassin Melford Church, Suffolk, c. 1480, exhibits this style of head-dress in great perfection; thewhole of the figure is given here(Fig. 251), in…

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