. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . nd forces. He spent 1693 to 1697 inEngland as commissioner. Sir Peter Lely and Sir Godfrey Kneller bothwere painting in Eng-land in those years, andboth were constant inpainting men with armorand perukes. This por-trait seems like Knel-lers work. Another portraitattired also in armorand peruke is of SirNathaniel Johnson, whowas appointed governorof South Carolina bythe Lords Proprietorsin 1702. The portrait Governor De Bienville. • , • L was painted in is one of the few of that date which show a faintmustache; he likewise wears a s
. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . nd forces. He spent 1693 to 1697 inEngland as commissioner. Sir Peter Lely and Sir Godfrey Kneller bothwere painting in Eng-land in those years, andboth were constant inpainting men with armorand perukes. This por-trait seems like Knel-lers work. Another portraitattired also in armorand peruke is of SirNathaniel Johnson, whowas appointed governorof South Carolina bythe Lords Proprietorsin 1702. The portrait Governor De Bienville. • , • L was painted in is one of the few of that date which show a faintmustache; he likewise wears a seal ring with coat-of-arms on the little finger of his left hand, whichwas unusual at that day. De Bienville, the gov-ernor of Louisiana, is likewise in wig and 1682 Thomas Richbell died in Boston, leavinga very rich and costly wardrobe. He had eightwigs. Of these, three were small periwigs worthbut a pound apiece. In New York, in Virginia,in all the colonies, these wigs were worn, and werejust as large and costly, as elaborately curled,. Perukes and Periwigs 3*9 as heavily powdered, as at the English and Frenchcourts. Archbishop Tillotson is usually regarded as thefirst amongst the English clergy to adopt the said in one of his sermons : — I can remember since the wearing of hair below theears was looked upon as a sin of the first magnitude, andwhen ministers generally, whatever their text was, dideither find or make occasion to reprove the great sin oflong hair; and if they saw any one in the congregationguilty in that kind, they would point him out particularly,and let fly at him with great zeal. Dr. Tillotson died on November 24, 1694. Long before that American preachers had felt itnecessary to let fly also;to denounce wig-wearingfrom their pulpits. Thequestion could not be set-tled, since the ministersthemselves could not Wilson, the zealousBoston minister, wore one,and John Cotton (see page42); while Rev. preached long andoften ag
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