. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . to good men for him to wear a wig, and they that carenot what men think of them,care not what God thinks ofthem. u I told him that he mustremember that wigs were con-demned by a meeting of minis-ters at Northampton. I toldhim of the solemnity of thecovenant which he and I hadlately entered into, which putupon me the duty of discours-ing to him. He seemed to say that he would leave off his wig whenhis hair was grown again. I spoke to his father of it aday or two afterwards and he thanked me for reasoningwith his son. He told me his son had
. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . to good men for him to wear a wig, and they that carenot what men think of them,care not what God thinks ofthem. u I told him that he mustremember that wigs were con-demned by a meeting of minis-ters at Northampton. I toldhim of the solemnity of thecovenant which he and I hadlately entered into, which putupon me the duty of discours-ing to him. He seemed to say that he would leave off his wig whenhis hair was grown again. I spoke to his father of it aday or two afterwards and he thanked me for reasoningwith his son. He told me his son had promised to leave off his wigwhen his hair was grown to cover his ears. If the fatherhad known of it, he would have forbidden him to cut offhis hair. His mother heard him talk of it, but was afraidto forbid him for fear he should do it in spite of her, andso be more faulty than if she had let him go his own way. Soon nearly every parson in England and everycolony wore wigs. John Wesley alone wore whatseems to be his own white hair curled under softly. Jonathan Edwards, 2nd. Perukes and Perb 335 at the ends. Whitfield is in a portentous wig likethe one on Dr. Marsh (page 331). In the time of Queen Anne, wigs had multipliedvastly in variety as they had increased in size. Ihave been asked the difference between a peruke anda wig. Of course .both, and the periwig, are simplywigs ; but the term peruke is in general appliedto a formal, richly curled wig; and the word peri-wig also conveys the distinction of a formal less dignity were riding-wigs, nightcap wigs, andbag-wigs. Bag-wigs are said to have had their originamong French servants,who tied up their hair in ablack leather bag as a speedyway of dressing it, and tokeep it out of the waywhen at other and disor-dering duties. In May, 1706, the Eng-lish, led by Marlborough,gained a great victory onthe battle-field of Ramillies,and that gave the title to anew wig described as hav- Patrick Henry ing a long, gradually diminishing
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