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Title: Royal and historic gloves and shoes
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Redfern, William Beales
Subjects: Gloves Footwear
Publisher: London : Methuen & Co.
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

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ett(a Parliamentary officer) entered by the front; and the story isstrengthened by the fact that the King, in detailing his adventuresto the Queen-mother and the Court, upon his safe arrival at theLouvre, described how he slipped out of Worcester, and hownear he was taken there, first in the fort and after in his chamber.Some of the Kings apparel was long treasured in a house in theparish of Whiteladies, within the city of Worcester,* the gloves hereillustrated being among the articles preserved. The gloves are madeof thin brown leather, the seams of the fingers and thumb beingcovered with silver-wire thread, terminating on the back of thehand considerably beyond the knuckles, thus giving a false idea ofthe length of the fingers. The gauntlets are also trimmed withsilver stitching ; and white spangled silver lace, sewn on to a bandof pale blue silk, gives a finish to the whole. The gauntlets are * At the Whiteladies, in the Tything, are the remains of a nunnery, hence the name. l. ! I
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GLOVES AND SHOES 45 split open some 5 inches at the sides, and are retained in positionby broad bands of blue ribbed silk. The total length of the gloves,from the tip of the middle finger to the point of the lace, is14 inches. In the possession of A. Clark-Kennedy, Esqr. 46 GLOVES AND SHOES PLATE XXX A PAIR OF WHITE GLOVES SIXTEENTH CENTURY PAIR of stout white leather gloves, apparently once theproperty of a person of considerable stature, to judgefrom their size. The gauntlets are nicely embroideredwith metallic thread of gold and silver, parts of the work beingraised by means of a red wool padding. Till recently these gloveswere in the possession of a family in Warwickshire. They are nowin the collection of Seymour Lucas, Esqr., R.A. A ri.Ai i \ \ x

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