. The year after the Armada, and other historical studies . llery were strictly silk might be worn but such as was of Spanishmanufacture. Servants were to be clothed in plaincloth and woollen stockings, and no person but agrandee was allowed to keep more than two lac-keys ; and no silk was to be used on harness orthe outside of coaches. No person might drivemore than four horses in the capital, and no lawyer,notary, or tradesman was permitted to keep a and priests alone might ride a pacing mule,all other men were bidden to mount horses and workmen were
. The year after the Armada, and other historical studies . llery were strictly silk might be worn but such as was of Spanishmanufacture. Servants were to be clothed in plaincloth and woollen stockings, and no person but agrandee was allowed to keep more than two lac-keys ; and no silk was to be used on harness orthe outside of coaches. No person might drivemore than four horses in the capital, and no lawyer,notary, or tradesman was permitted to keep a and priests alone might ride a pacing mule,all other men were bidden to mount horses and workmen were to dress exclusively inbaize, serge, or frieze ; their cuffs alone might be ofsilk. The pains and penalties in this great prag-matic were many and severe, but the decree aimedat doing too much. So many fine and delicatedoubtful points arose with regard to its provisions,that for years after fresh proclamations were con-stantly being made to elucidate this pragmatic of1723; and through the many loopholes offendersescaped, and the act became a dead TELAS QTJEZ,Error. FRANCISCO DE QUEVEDO VILLECAS A FIGHT AGAINST FINERY. 257 Indeed, sumptuary laws were already growingout of date, even in Spain; the courtiers copiedthe latest fashions from Paris, and the commonpeople, more out of patriotism and mute resentmentthan anything else, made their cloaks longer andlonger and their hats wider and wider. The longends of the cloaks had to be put out of the waysomehow, so they were thrown across the face tothe opposite shoulder, and, what with the broad-brim over the brow and the cloak over the mouth,none of the face was seen but the eyes. Spain during the greater part of the eighteenthcentury had the ill-fortune to be governed by foreignministers, mostly Italians, and one after the otherthey tried to cut stubborn Spain to the same patternas the rest of the world. The more they tried themore sulky and determined became the people, andit resolved itself into a national article of fait
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