Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 113
courtiers, the Duke of Buckingham, wore diamond ear-rings. In the reign of Charles I ear-rings continued in fashion; for the king hung a beautiful pearl in his ear; he evenwore it on hisway to the scaf-fold. There hetook it from hisear and gave itto a faithful fol-lower, and eversince it has… … Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset. writing of the Princess of Orange. about five-eighths of an inch lon^ gold top, with a wire to pass through the ear, and a tiny knob to place behind the ear to hold it in place. It is shown in a portrait of the King when he was but fourteen years old. Many of the…
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