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English costume (1906)

Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 58

An illustration from English costume, 1906, leaf 58
ere is a beggar with a hood of black stuffover his head—a hood with two peaks, one on eitherside of his head ; and again, here is a minstrelwith a patched round cloak, and a mummer witha two-peaked hood, the peaks stuffed out stiff,with bells jangling on the points of them. 4—2 98 ENGLISH COSTUME… … merchants from Flanders among the crowd, andthey talk as best they can in a sort of French-I^atin-English jargon among themselves; they speakof England as the great wool-producing country,the tax on which produced £30,000 in one year;they talk of the tax, its uses and abuses, and how EDWARD THE…

Costume -- Great Britain

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