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torals, and prayed Mr. Urban to print them. Q came 
in the corner of the page with his query. R arrogated 
to himself the right of reprehending every one who 
differed from him. S sighed and sued in song. T 
told an old tale, and when he was wrong, U used to 
set him right. V was a virtuoso. W warred against 
Warburton. X excelled in algebra. Y yearned for 
immortality in rhyme, and Z in his zeal was always in 
a puzzle, 
Surely, Sir, you have revived the Golden Age 
of Magazines, and long may you flourish. Q.D. 
THE USE OF BEAVER HATS IN ENGLAND. 
The notice from Fairholt’s Costume in England, 
concerning the earliest use of a beaver hat in 
England, is not very satisfactory. Beaver hats 
were certainly used in this country long before 
Stubbes’s time. They were originally, like many 
other articles of dress, manufactured abroad, and 
imported here. Indeed, this was a great source 
of complaint by the English artisan until a com- 
paratively late period. The author of A Brief 
Discourse of English Poesy, nu. d. (temp. Eliz.), 
says : — 
«“ T merveil no man taketh heed to it, what number 
of trifles come hither from beyond the seas, that we 
might clean spare, or else make them within our realme, 
For the which we either pay inestimable treasure every 
year, or else exchange substantial wares and necessaries 
for them, for the which we might receive great trea- 
sure,” 
“The beaver or felt hats (says J. H. Burn, in his 
interesting History of the Foreign Refugees, p. 257.) 
worn in the reign of Edward III., and for a long time 
afterwards, were made in Flanders. The refugees in 
Norfolk introduced the manufacture of felts and 
thrummed hats into that county; and by a statute of 
5 and 6 Edward VI., that trade was confined to Nor- 
wich, and all other corporate and market towns in the 
county.” 
“ About that time (says a History of Trade, pub- 
lished in 1702) we suffered a great herd of French 
tradesmen to come in, and particularly hat-makers, 
who brought with them the fashion of making a slight, 
coarse, mean commodity, viz. felt hats, now called 
Carolinas ; a very inferior article to beavers and demi- 
castors, the former of which then sold at from 24s. to 
48s. a-piece.” 
In the Privy-Purse Expenses of Henry VIIL., 
we read, under the date 1532 — 
“Ttem the xxiij day [October] paied for a hatte 
and a plume for the King in Boleyn |#. e. Bou- 
logne] - - - - Xvs. 
And again — 
“ Item the same day paied for the garnisshing of ij 
bonetts, and for the said hatte XXiijs. ilijd. 
These entries are curious, as the purchase of 
the hat was made in a foreign country. It was 
probably something that took the King’s fancy, as 
we can hardly suppose that his majesty had neg- 
lected to provide himself with this necessary ap- 
pendage before he left England. 
Several interesting notices concerning hats, and 
apparel generally, may be seen in Roger Ascham’s 
Schoolmaster, 1570, which I do not remember to 
have seen quoted; but the literature of this period 
abounds in illustration of costume which has been 
but imperfectly gleaned. Epwarp F. Rimpautr. 
EXTRACTS FROM OLD RECORDS. 
If you think the insertion of scraps from the 
mutilated Exchequer records useful, I shall be 
most happy, from time to time, to contribute a 
few. The following are extracted from fragments 
of a book of entries, temp. Charles I.: the book 
appears to have been a large folio, and each leaf 
torn into at least four pieces. It is much to be 
regretted that the work of selection and mutilation 
was not assigned to moré competent persons than 
the ignorant porters who I am told were entrusted 
with it. Rosert Coxe. 
Fragment dated 1640. 
John de Critz, Serjeant Painter, pt of 
2158. 13, for a debt in the great 
wardrobe - - - 60 0 O 
200 0 O 
S* James Palmer, Kn‘, for the Tapestrie pas a8 p 
makers and painters at Mortlach  - 962.10 0 
300 O O 
Fragment dated 1637. 
....+.. hony Vandike Knt pt of 1200% 
forbes: =. c0tete = - - 300 0 O 
ire arse le Seur Sculpter p* of 7200 
«ee eeees.. Statues and Images - 300 O O 
Fragment dated 1640. 
Ae nagaced in satisfaction for his greate 
Losses by his greate and extraordi- 
nary disbursem*s vpon assignem** and 
other charges - - - 4000 0 O 
St Job Harby and St John Nulles, 
Knits, for soe much paid to the King 
of Denmke for redempion of a greate 
Jewell, and to liquidate the accompts 
betwixt his Mat’ and the said King 25000 0 O 
Hubrecht le Seur in full of 340 &. for 
2 statues in brasse, the one of his late 100 0 O 
Mat’, and the other of our now Soue- 70 0 O 
raigne lo: King Charles* - - 
More to him 60/i., in pt of 120/. for a 
bust of brasse of his late Maty, and 
40. for carrying and erecting 2 
figures at Winchester - - 100 0 O 
Richard Delamair for making divers 100 0 0 
Mathematicall Instruments, and 68 0 0 
other services - - - 
* Qy. the statue now at Charing Cross. 
