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well, were in the former Part of that Century more 
commonly written with a ftngle/ than double //, but 
afterwards promifcuoufly, as may be feen by the 
Bibles printed in thofe Times. 
With regard to the Images, King 'Philip is the 
firft,fwhom I have feen d re tied with a high crowned 
Hat and Feather. Nor does it feem improbable, that 
he might introduce that Fafhion here in England . 
Ruffs do not appear among us till pretty late in :he 
Reign of King Henry the Eighth, and were Email at 
~ firft; but afterwards they increafed in their Size gra- 
dually, till they became very large under Queen Eli- 
zabeth, and fo continued thro the next Reign, and 
Part of the following, when they were fucceeded by 
broad laced Bands. It is true indeed, that we find 
Ruffs upon the Images of fome of our Princes, or 
other great Perfons, placed on their funeral Monu- 
ments, and elfewhere, which feem to exceed the Fa- 
fhion then in Ufe. But as thefe Images were made 
after their Death, fo the Habits are fuited not to their 
Times, but thofe when the Artifts lived, and the 
Monuments were ere&ed, where they are found ; 
which Circumftancc, if not attended to, will be apt 
to miflead us in feveral other Things relating to our 
Antiquities. The clofe ftriped Jackets, fhaped to the 
Body, with Email Buttons, and ftriped Breeches, came 
in about the fame time with the Ruffs. The inge- 
nious Artift, and diligent Searcher into our English 
Antiquities, Mr. George Vertue , fhewed me a Portrait 
of William Herbert,thzf\xft. Earl of Pembroke, fo ha- 
bited in the Reign of King Edward the Sixth ; which, 
he faid, was the oldeft Pidlure, that he remembered 
to have feen in that Habit. And he had likewife 
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