INDEX

A B C D E F G H I J K L M

N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Absalom, 7, 8

Age of wigs, 71-93

Agrarian law repealed, 48

Albemarle, Earl of, 78 Duchess of, 17

Alexander III., Pope, forbids clergy to act as surgeons, 27

Alfreton, 102

Anne, Queen, 82

Assyrian sculptures, 72

"Antiquarian Repertory," quoted, 2

"Athenian Oracle," quoted, 1

Aubrey, quoted, 17, 54

Bag-wig, 84

Bakewell, Derbyshire, epitaph from, 32

Ballad of the Beard, 41-44

Banks, Mrs G. Linnæus, quoted, 67

Banks and the moustache, 105

Bar and the moustache, 107

Barber-surgeon, antiquity of, 26

Barber's pole, 1-8

Barber's shop, 8-24

Barbers and surgeons, laws relating to their work, 28 separate, 31

Barbers' Company, first Master of the, 27

Barnard Castle, 18

Barristers without wigs, 88

Bathurst, Lord, cuts off his pig-tail, 84

Bayeux tapestry, 34

Beard protection against neuralgia, 99

Beardie Scott, 47

Beardless Britons, 33

Bible, quoted, 33

Bleeding at Northallerton, 31

Blomfield, Bishop, 86

Boxing the beard, 56

Brand's "Popular Antiquities," 5

British Apollo, quoted, 6

Britons, 33

Brontë, Rev. P., story about, 25, 26

Bygone beards, 33-56

Campaign wig, 81

Canterbury, Sheriff of, 36

Cavaliers, 44

Chair, barber's, 14

Charles I., 38, 44, 48 II., 25

Charlotte, Queen, 66

Chaucer, quoted, 52

Chester barber-surgeons, 23

Church denounces wigs, 73 denounces moustache, 108

Churchyards, barbers shave in, 21, 23

Clergy caring for men's bodies and souls, 26

Cloth of gold, 55

Cockburn, Judge, 87

Combing the wig, 79

Congreve, 79

"Comenii Orbis Pictus," quoted, 2

Comenius, Bishop, 2

Contractors and the moustache, 105

Cox, Rev. Dr J. C., quoted, 70

Crimean War, 99

Crop clubs, 64

Curing a joking duke, 18

Cyprus customs, 50

Dale, R. W., 112

Defence of the beard, 109

Delmahoy's wig, 86

Demanding the beard, 51

Desecrating the Sabbath by shaving, 24, 25

Disuse of hair powder, 69

Doran, Dr, quoted, 73

Drapers refuse to employ men with moustaches, 104

Drury Lane, five women barbers of, 17

Dryden, quoted, 79

Duke and barber's boy, 18

Dyeing the beard, 37

Earliest mention of the beard, 33

Early gild in London, 27

Eastern potentate, 35

Eden, Dr, and the moustache, 110

Egyptian wigs, 71

Eldon, Lord, 87

Elizabeth, Queen, 37, 38

Epigram on three colonels, 100

Epitaphs on barber-surgeons, 32

Fairholt, F. W., 41

False hair worn by women, 88

Farquhar, 20

Female follies, 61

Fined for wearing beards, 35, 36

First illustrated school book, 2

Forfeits, 14-16

Fox, C. J., 64

France, wig mania in, 75

Free advice to a young clergyman, 85

Frith, W. P., "Autobiography" quoted, 103

From barber to surgeon, 26-32

Frost fair, 81

Gallants, gathering of, 9

Galley-pot, 5

Garrick, 14

Gauls, 60

Gay, J., quoted, 13, 61, 95

Gentleman's Magazine, quoted, 62

George III. and wig-makers, 95 sets his subjects a good example, 69 IV. and Dr Randolph, 86

Gold-dust used as hair-powder, 59

Grain, high price of, 68

Great seal, 76

Guitar, 9

Hannibal, 75

Hastings, Battle of, 33

Hawkesbury, Lord, and new bread, 70

Hawkins, Sir J., quoted, 79

Heart-Breakers, 89

Hedderwick, Dr, quoted, 101

Henry VI., 48

Henry VIII., 35

Hentzner, quoted, 89

High Church clergymen, 109

Hodgson, Professor, 113

Holbein's picture, 28

Holme, R., quoted, 81

House of Peers, 5

How, Dr Walsham, 112

Hull baker fined, 70 candidate for Holy Orders and his moustache, 110 policemen and the moustache, 113 timber merchant and the moustache, 110

"Impartial Monitor," quoted, 61

Incorporation of Barbers, 28

Irish Shaving Statute, 47

Jewish custom, 26

Jews used hair-powder, 59

Johnson, Dr, 16

Johnstone, Rev. E., desecrating the Sabbath by shaving, 24

Julius II., 34

Juvenile wigs, 92

Kauffmann, A., 66

Kenealy, Dr, 88

Kenrick, Dr, 16

King's barber, 19

Knox, John, 36, 37

Last barber-surgeon in London, 31

Laud, Archbishop, 51

"Letters from the Dead to the Living," 79

Lichfield, 20

Lincoln's Inn and the beard, 35

London women barbers, 17

Lord's Day observance, 21-25

Louis XIV., 83

Louth, 18

Lowe, Rev. H. D., 113

"Loyal Litany," quoted, 61

Lyttelton, Lord, 91

Macedonian soldiers, 48

Maclaren, C., editor of the Scotsman, 102

Magistrate and the moustache, 97

Malcolm, quoted, 82

Manner of using hair powder, 63, 68

Mansfield, Lord, 92

Marie Antoinette, 92

Marston, quoted, 54

Mary Queen of Scots, 89

Massinger, quoted, 61

Medical men and wigs, 86

Ministers shaving on Sunday, 24, 25

Missal, 5

Mock doctor, 86

More, Rev. J., 36 Sir Thomas, 36

Moustache and the motor-car, 115 movement, 96-115

Muffs, 80

Muntz, G. F., 99

Music, barber's, 9, 21

Newcastle-on-Tyne, barber-surgeons of, 24

Notes and Queries, quoted, 16, 47

Nottingham, story of moustache and marriage, 103

Objectionable mode of advertising blood-letting, 27

O'Connell, D., 90

One pig-tail only returned to the reformed Parliament, 84

Paris, massacre of, 75

Pepys, quoted, 31, 76

Percival, Col., 99

Periwig with tail, 81

Peter the Great, 91

Phlebotomy, 2-5

Pig-tail, 84

Pitt, 63

Plucking the beard, 48, 49

Poetical signs, 7, 8

Politics and the moustache, 101

Pontefract, 23

Powdering the hair, 59-71

Pulling the nose, 54

Puritans, 11

"Quip for an Upstart Courtier," 9

"Rambler," quoted, 63

Ramillies, Battle of, 82 wig, 83

Reading regulations, 9

Red rag, 5

Reform Bill, 84

Repton, J. A., 41

Retailer of scandal, 8

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 66

Robinson, Serjeant, quoted, 106

Rogers, Dr C., quoted, 24

Romans and hair-powder, 59

Russian laws, 56-59

Ryle, Bishop, 109

Sandy-coloured hair, 60

Saxons and hair-powder, 59

Sayings, old, 51-56

Saywell, Rev. J. L., quoted, 31

Scarborough, woman barber at, 17

Scott, Sir Walter, quoted, 66

Sealing custom, 35

Shakespeare, quoted, 14, 53

Shaving heads, 74

Sheppard, Mr, M.P., 84

Shirley, quoted, 53

Short-bob, 83

Sibthorp, Col., 99

Speaker's wig, 87

Starching the beard, 55

Stealing wigs, 93-95

Stephen, King, 75

Stow, quoted, 75

Stratford-on-Avon, 14

Street frays, 9

Strickland, Agnes, quoted, 92

Stripes on barber's pole, colour of, 5

Strutt, quoted, 60

Stuart, artist, story of, 114

Stubbes, 12

Stupid barbers unknown, 8

Sumner, Archbishop, 86

Sunday shaving, 21-25

Surgeons' Incorporation Bill, 5

Swift, quoted, 5-7, 94

Taxing hair-powder, 62, 63, 65 the beard, 37, 56-59

Taylor the Water Poet, 38, 41

Tewkesbury Abbey, epitaph from, 31

"Thirsk Forfeits," 15

Thurlow, Lord, 5

Tichborne trial, 88

Tiles, fine of, 9

Tillotson, Dr, 85

Timbs, John, quoted, 31

Times, quoted, 64, 88, 97

Token, beard, 58

Tours, Edict of, 27

Tragic story, 48

Verner, Col., 99

Vizetelly, quoted, 50

Wakefield, first man to wear a moustache at, 102

Walpole, Horace, quoted, 96 Sir Robert, 85

Ward, James, quoted, 109

Wesleyans and the beard, 113

Whitehall Evening Post, quoted, 90

Wig-makers' riot, 95, 96

Williams, noted barber, 92

Wills and the moustache, 114

With and without wigs, 90

"Wits' Recreations," quoted, 60

Women barbers, 16-18

Working hours, long, 9

Workshop and Sunday shaving, 23

Yarmouth, curious bill at, 69

York, Archbishop of, 110 Gild of Barber-Surgeons, 21

"Yorkshire, Ballads and Songs of," quoted, 15, 16