" 364

54. A Man of the Time of Charles II. 1660-1685 366

55. A Man of the Time of Charles II. " 368

56. A Woman of the Time of Charles II. " 372

57. A Man of the Time of James II. 1685-1689 378

58. A Woman of the Time of James II. " 380

59. A Man of the Time of William
and Mary 1689-1702 384

60. A Woman of the Time of William
and Mary " 392

61. A Man of the Time of Queen Anne 1702-1714 396

62. A Woman of the Time of Queen Anne " 400

63. A Man of the Time of George I. 1714-1727 408

64. A Woman of the Time of George I. 1714-1727 412

65. A Man of the Time of George II. 1727-1760 416

66. A Woman of the Time of George II. " 424

67. A Man of the Time of George III. 1760-1820 432

68. A Woman of the Time of George III. " 434

69. A Man of the Time of George III. 1760-1820 436

70. A Woman of the Time of George III. " 438

Illustrations in Black and White

FACING PAGE
A Series of Thirty-two Half-tone Reproductions of
Engravings by Hollar 358

A Series of Sixty Half-tone Reproductions of Wash Drawings
by the Dightons--Father and Son--and by the Author 440

Numerous Line Drawings by the Author throughout the Text.

WILLIAM THE FIRST

Reigned twenty-one years: 1066-1087.

Born 1027. Married, 1053, Matilda of Flanders.

THE MEN

[Illustration: {A man of the time of William I.; a shoe}]

Why France should always give the lead in the matter of dress is a
nice point in sartorial morality--a morality which holds that it takes
nine tailors to make a man and but one milliner to break him, a code,
in fact, with which this book will often have to deal.

Sartorially, then, we commence with the 14th of October, 1066, upon
which day, fatal to the fashions of the country, the flag of King
Harold, sumptuously woven and embroidered in gold, bearing the figure
of a man