They  had  alfo  a  Jack  Straw ;  but  in  the  time  of  queen  Elizabeth
he,  and  all  his  adherents,  were  utterly  banifhed.  I  muft  not  omit,
that  in  the  fame  reign  fumptuary  laws  were  made  to  regulate  the
drefs  of  the  members  of  the  houfe;  who  were  forbidden  to  wear
long  hair,  or  great  ruffs,  cloaks,  boots,  or  fpurs.  In  the  reign
of  Henry  VIII.  beards  were  prohibited  at  the  great  table,  under
pain  of  paying  double  commons.  His  daughter  EUzabetby  in
the  firft  year  of  her  reign,  confined  them  to  a  fortnight's  growth,
under  penalty  of  3^.  4^.;  but  the  fafhion  prevaled  fo  ftrongly,
that  the  prohibition  was  repealed,  and  no  manner  of  fize  limited
to  that  venerable  excrefcence !

LINCOLN'S-INN-FJELDS  would  have  been  one  of  our  mofl

beautiful  fquares,  had  it  been  built  on  a  regular  plan.     The

difpofition  of  it  was,  in  1618,  committed  to  the  care  of  the

lord  chancellor,  the  earls  of  Worcefter,  Pembroke)  Arundel,  and

6  others*


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CHAFEL.
ANTIENT
REVELS.
REGULATION*
ABOUT  BEARDS.
LINCOLN'S-INN-
FIELD**


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EXECUTION  OF
LORD  RUSSEL.
NEWCASTLE-
HOUSE.
LINCOLN'S-INN-FIELDS.
