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conriderable niaimfaftory of folt-tiats. Several authors liave 

 employed llieir pens in defciibiiig the topoirraphy and aiiti- 

 quitios of this county : the principal of theie are fir Ilobcrt 

 Atkins's " Ancient and prefent State of Gloiicei'erlhire," 

 fol. 171 2, focond edit. 176>!. Riiddi-r's " New Hillory of 

 Gloucellerlhire," fol. 1779: Blsland'.; " Hillorical, Monu- 

 mental, and Genealogical CoUertion.;," Sec. folio, one volume 

 and part of a fecoud, 1791 : Lyfons's " CoHcaion of Glou- 

 ccfle.-fliire Antiquities," folio', 1801: Rudge's "Hiilory 

 of the County of Gloucetler, coniprefled and brought down 

 to the Year 1S03,'' 2 vols. 8vo. Foftjrooke and Yates's 

 " HiHory of Gloucellerniire," 2 vols. 410. 1805. " Beau- 

 ties of England and Walea," vol. v. contains a concife and 

 general account of the county. 



GLOVE, CnrROT)ii:c.A. a habit or covering for tlie 

 hand and wrift, ufed both for warmth, decency, and as a 

 fhfltcr from the weather. 



Gloves are diftinguifned, with refpeol to commerce, into 

 leather gloves, filk gloves, thread gloves, cotton gloves, 

 worlUd gloves, &c. 



There are alfo gloves of \elvet, fattin, taffety, &c. Lea- 

 ther gloves are made of fnamoy, kid, lamb, doe, elk, buif, 

 Sec. There are alfo perfumed gloves; waihed, glazed, 

 waxed gloves; and white, black, fnuff-colour, &c. gloves; 

 fmgle, lined, topped, laced, fringed with gold, lilver, fdk, 

 fur, &:c. 



It is a proverb for a glove to be good and well made, 

 three kingdoms mufl contribute to it ; Spain to drefa the 

 leather, France to cut it, and England to few it. But, of 

 late, the French feem to have appropriated the funiJiions ot 

 the other two; the gloves of the French manufafture being 

 now faid to have the advantage, in point of drefling and 

 fewing, as much as of cutting. 



By 34 Geo. in. c. 10. the Brilidi duty on gloves and 

 mittens impofed by 25 Geo. Ill c. 55. is repealed, except 

 the duty on licenies; and by 36 Geo III. c. 80. the faid 

 duty on licences is alfo repealed. By 6 Geo. III. c. 19. 

 and 25 Geo. III. c. ^^. foreign manufaftured leather gloves 

 or mitts ihall not be imported, under the penalty of forfei- 

 ture; and the importer or feller incurs, befides forfeiture, 

 a penalty of 200/. with double colls. 



Glove, to throw the, was a praftice or ceremony very 

 ufual among our forefathers, being the challenge whereby 

 another was defied to fingle combat. It is flill retained at 

 the coronation of our kings, when the king's champion calls 

 his glove in Weilminfter-hall. 



Favyn fuppofes t'lc cullom to have arifen from the eafleru 

 nations, who, in all their fales and deliveries of lands, goods, 

 &c. ufed to give the purchafer their glove by way of livery 

 or inveftiture. To this effeft he quotes Ruth iv. 7 where 

 the Clialdee paraphrafe calls glove what the common vcrfion 

 renders by flioe. He adds, that tlie rabbins interpret by 

 glove, that palfage in the cviiith Pfalm, " In Idumeam ex- 

 tendam calceamentum meum, Over Edom will I call out my 

 ftioe.'' Accordingly, among us, he who took up the glove, 

 declared thereby his acceptance of the challenge ; and as 

 part of the ceremony, continues Favyn, took the glove off 

 his own right hand, and ca:l it upon the ground, to be taken 

 up by the challenger. This had the force of a nuitual en- 

 gagement on each fide to meet at the time and place which 

 fhould be appointed by the king, parliament, or jndges. 

 The fame author aiTerts, that the cuilom which ob- 

 tained of blefTuig gloves, in the coronation of the kings of 

 France, is a remain of the eaftern praftice of giving poffef- 

 fion with t!ie glove. Lib. xvi. ]> 1017, &c. 



The delivery of a glove was in frequent ufe formerly, as 

 a fymbol of inveiliture. See Du Cangc, GlolF. Lat. 



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Gloves were alfo ufed to fignify the fleward's or baiiifT's 

 fee, or pari of the price of the inveftiture or purehafe-money 

 of the land. " Si aliquam territorii partem vemmdari conti- 

 gerit, domini venditiones habebunt ; feilicct, tot dcnarios 

 quot venditor inde habuerit folidos. Major vero terrtc illiui 

 pro i-jautls accipient duos donarios." Where auant'i figniiies 

 glofcs, or, in French, gants. 



Hence the cummon cullom, in many- bargains, of giving 

 fervanis money for a pair of gloves. 



■ Ar.ciitntly it was prohibited the judges to wear gloves on- 

 the bench; and at prefent, in the llables of moit; pru.CL . 

 it is not fafe going in without pulling off the gloves. 



GLOVER, Ricii.-VKD, in Biogrrphy, was born at Lcn. 

 don in 17 12. He received the elementary inllrmSicns in 

 clafficul learning at Clieam, and exhibited a confiderable 

 talle for tlie clafllcs, and an attachment to fciencc. Wiien 

 he was only 1 6 years old, lie wrote a copy of verfes " To 

 the memory of fir Ifaac Newton," which is prefixed to 

 Dr. Pembcrton's view of tlie Newtonian philolopliy. lie 

 engaged in commercial purfuits, and became eminent in the 

 mercantile world, to which he was introduced by Ins f.iilier. 

 In 1737, he m^arried a lady with a handfome fortune; and 

 in the fame year he publidied his epic poem of Leonida^. 

 Glover had joined the oppofition of the day, at the head 

 of which was Frederic prince of Wales, and his poem, 

 founded on the llruggles of free Greece againft Afiatic 

 delpotifm, was calculated in a high degree to ierve a gene- 

 rous caufe. It abounds in noble fentiments, and is conlider- 

 ably varied by incident and defcription. Its plan is admira- 

 bly adapted for poetical cffedt : it was received by Lyttle- 

 ton and others with high applaufe, and very foon pnfied 

 through three editions. " But it labours,'' fays the critic, 

 " under that want of intereft which attends all modern epics, 

 efpecially fuch as are built upon lome ot the fubaltern events 

 of ancient hiilory ; and its poetry is not of a charafter fuffi- 

 ciently elevated to engage the reader by the beauty of 

 detached paffages.'' The reputation which it firft acquired 

 foon fublided, and it now lives rather in memory tlian in 

 the aftual acquaintance of readers. He publiflied in 1739, 

 his poem, entitled " London, or the Progrefs ot Commerce:" 

 and the ballad of " Holler's Glioil." Mr. Glover was not 

 only a poet but an ardent politician, and v,-as diltinguilhed 

 in various inllances for his eloquence in the caufe of freedom. 

 His talents gained him great credit, and he was appointed 

 by the merchants of London to conduit an application to 

 p;n-liament, complaining of tlie negleft with which their 

 tr.'.de had been treated. The fpeech which he pronounced 

 :it the bar of the houfe of commons on this iubjecl, in 

 January 1 742, was greatly admired, and was pubhllicd. 

 His celebrity as a public charafter, did not favour his pro- 

 grefs in comrrerce ; his affairs became embarrafled ; he was, 

 to ufe a modern fafliionable phrafe, obliged to fufpend his 

 payments, and at length retreated from acliive life, to 

 praiftiie economy in an obfcure fituation The ducheis of 

 Marlborough bequeathed him, and Mallet, five hundred 

 pounds each on condition of their joining to write the 

 hiftory of the great duke. Glover renounced the talk, and 

 Mal'.et never executed it. He now wrote feveral pieces {or 

 the llage, whicli being fuccefsful to a confiderable degree 

 hi:; circumftances became fo much improved, that he ven- 

 tured to return to public life, and fat as member for Wey- 

 mouth, in the parliament of 1761. His commercial know- 

 ledge made him extremely ufeful on feveral important 

 occafiinis. In the year 1775-, he took an active part in an 

 application to parliament on behalf of the Weil India 

 merchants, and for his zeal and alliduity he was coinpli- 

 niented with a valuable prefent of plate. He died in 



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