th a heavily-rolled and stuffed brim, pleated drapery hanging
over one side and streamer of broad stuff over the other; just such a
hat did these people wear, on their heads or slung over their
shoulder, being held in the left hand by means of the streamer. There
the honourable family of hood came to a green old age, and was, at the
end of the fifteenth century, allowed to retire from the world of
fashion, and was given a pension and a home, in which home you may
still see it--on the shoulders of the Garter robe. Also it has two
more places of honourable distinction--the roundlet is on the Garter
robe; the chaperon, with the cut edge, rests as a cockade in the hats
of liveried servants, and the minutest member of the family remains in
the foreign buttons of honourable Orders.

[Illustration: {Six types of head-gear}]

We have the roundlet, then, for principal head-gear in this reign, but
we must not forget that the hood is not dead; it is out of the strict
realms of fashion, but it is now a practical country garment, or is
used for riding in towns. There are also other forms of
head-wear--tall, conical hats with tall brims of fur, some brims cut
or scooped out in places; again, the hood may have a furred edge
showing round the face opening; then we see a cap which fits the head,
has a long, loose back falling over the neck, and over this is worn a
roll or hoop of twisted stuff. Then there is the sugar-loaf hat, like
a circus clown's, and there is a broad, flat-brimmed hat with a round
top, like Noah's hat in the popular representations of the Ark.

[Illustration: {Two men of the time of Henry VI.}]

Besides these, we have the jester's three-peaked hood and one-peaked
hood, the cape of which came, divided into points, to the knees, and
had arms with bell sleeves.

Let us see what manner of man we have under such hats: almost without
exception among the gentlemen we have the priestly hair--that queer,
shaved, tonsure-like cut, but without the circular piece cut away from
the crown of the head.

[Illustration: {A man of the time of Henry VI.}]

The cut of the tunic in the body has little variation; it may be
longer or shorter, an inch above or an inch below the knee, but it is
on one main principle. It is a loose tunic with a wide neck open in
front about a couple or three inches; the skirt is full, and may be
cut up on one or both sides; it may be edged with fur or some stuff
different to the body of the gar