A Ruff, or Piccadilly, to wear about the Neck to support the Ruff, and might suit Queen Elizabeth's strictest Proclamation, being but a Nail in the broadest Part. Don. D. Corn. Lee. A Brass Instrument for marking or crisping the Linen. An Indian Gorget, or Ruff, not made of Linen, but Hair woven together in Wefts; it consists of 10 Rounds, six of the inmost of which are entirely red, the rest a yellow white for an Inch in Breadth, and the Remainder of it red. The Wefts are sowed together, and bound about with red Cloth; it is three Inches broad and 19 long. Peaked Lace of different Forms and Fineness. A laced Cravat scarce 4 ½ Inch deep, Temp. Car. 2. A Point Cravat a Foot deep, in the same Reign; its Ribband of Gold and Green. Band Strings, and Knops of Thread, and of Beads both black and white. Breast-Knot of black Bugles and Snail-work. Stomacher embroidered with Silver and Gold; another of Silk with Flowers, curiously shaded with Variety of Colours. Holland Sleeves neatly wrought with black Silk. Sleeves of black Velvet, which Stow tells us was first made by Mr. John Tyce and Englishman near Shoreditch, in Q. Elizabeth's Time. As Heliogabalus was the first who wore Silk Cloths in Rome, so was Cardinal Wolsey the first Clergyman who did the like in England. A pair of Iron-stays or Bodice, which Mrs. W. of L. obliged her Daughter to wear; not so constantly, I presume, as St. Goodrick did his Iron Jerkins, of which he is said to have worn three Suits in the Time of his Hermitage (Legend of St. Cuthbert, p. 81.) Holland Puffles for the Gown Sleeves. Cuffs of Cambrick and Lawn, which in Q. Elizabeth's Time was so rare that all the Merchants in London, had not so much as may be had now in one Linen-Drapers Shop (Stow, pag. 86.) when Mrs. Dinghen van den Pass, a Flemish Knight's Daughter was the first profess'd Starcher in London. Archbishop Dolben's Buttons of Indian Peas tipp'd with Silver, probably when he was in the Army of King Charles I. Button-Molds of antique Forms. Buttons of Gold and Silk, large enough for a Wedding Coat, 1 Jac. 2. Since worn on the Wast-Coat of a Child of five Years old; such the foolish Instability of our Tempers!