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The Percy Anecdotes Volume 1-2 by Sholto Percy

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Author: Sholto Percy
Page Count: 590 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781130603446
Download Link: The Percy Anecdotes Volume 1-2
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 Excerpt: ...the fashion during the reign of Queen Anne, for no woman of very high rank ever to own herself perfectly in health; a silly custom, well ridiculed by Cibber, in his comedy of "The Sick Lady's Cure." The Duchess of Marlborough gave into this folly with great extravagance, and particularly in travelling, when loads of Uraw were generally strewed before the door of her hotel, to prevent the least noise of passengers or carriages. In garrison towns, too, she frequently sent to the commanding officer to have the drnms mnffied, while she remained in the place. WISDOM OF WIGS. When wigs were first introduced into England, soon after the Restoration, some men of tender consciences were greatly scandalized at this article of dress considering it as equally indecent with long hair, and more culpable, because utterly unnatural. Many preachers inveighed against it in their sermons, and cut their hair shorter, to express their abhorrence of the reigning mode. It was observed, however, by the more discreet part of the world, that a perriwig procured many persons a degree of respect and even veneration, which they were strangers to before, and to which they had not the least claim from their personal merit. The judges and physicians, who thoroughly understood this magical influence of the wig, gave it all the advantage of length as well as size. The ecclesiastics themselves fell also, at length, into the fashion which they had so much condemned. Wood informs us that 's Dr. Nathaniel Vincent, Chaplain in Ordinary to the king, preached before him at Newmarket, in a long periwig and Holland sleeves, according to the then fashion for gentlemen; and that his majesty was so offended at it, that he commanded the Duke of Monmouth, Chancellor to the University of Cambrid...

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