Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 464
EDWARD THE SIXTH 279 man, an effeminate dandy, as wearing a partletstrip. It appears to me, who am unwilliQglyforced into judging between so many learnedpersons, that, from all I have been able to gatherfrom contemporary records and papers, the partlet … is indeed, as Minshein says, the loose collar of adoublet, in reality the same thing as a shirt band. Henry VIII. wore a band about his neck, theforerunner of the ruff. Some of his bands wereof silver cloth with ruffs to them, others, as Thave shown, were wonderfully embroidered. 280 ENGLISH…
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