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Title: Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911
Subjects: Clothing and dress
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company London, Macmillan & co., ltd.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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hite silk hose over scarlet ones ; and he wore blackshoes with scarlet shoe strings and scarlet roses andgarters ; and his gloves were trimmed with scarletribbon — a fine gaybeseen — to use Chaucerswords. Surprising to all must be the portrait of thatPuritan figurehead, the Earl of Leicester; for hewears an affected double-peaked beard, a great ruff,feathered hat, richly jewelled hatband and collar,and an ear-ring. Facing page 26 is the dress hewore when masquerading in Holland as general dur-ing the Netherland insurrection against Philip II. It is strange to find even writers of intelligencecalling Winthrop and Endicott Roundheads. Arecent magazine article calls Myles Standish aRoundhead captain. That term was not inventedtill a score of years after Myles Standish landedat Plymouth. A political song printed in 1641is entitled The Character of a Roundhead. It be-gins : — What creatures this with his short hairsHis little band and huge long ears That this new faith hath founded ?
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~/ke ritiht Uucfiourable _Jcrdinant—IjTrd- Fairfax. Apparel of the Puritan and Pilgrim Fathers 39 The Puritans were never such,The saints themselves had neer as much.Oh, such a knaves a Roundhead. Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson was the wife of a Puritangentleman, who was colonel in Cromwells army,and one of the regicide judges. She wrote a historyof her husbands life, which is one of the most valu-able sources of information of the period wherein helived, the day when Cromwell and Hampden acted,when Laud and Strafford suffered. In this historyshe tells explicitly of the early use of the wordRoundhead:— The name of Roundhead coming so opportunely, Ishall make a little digression to show how it came up :When Puritanism grew a faction, the Zealots distinguishedthemselves by several affectations of habit, looks and words,which had it been a real forsaking of vanity would havebeen most commendable. Among other affected habits,few of the Puritans, what degree soever they were, woretheir hair long

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