Note 954 — ACT I. SCENE I.

falling bands] See note, p. 218.—“In Evelyn’s Discourse on Medals, 1697, p. 108, is the head of Charles I. crowned, in the garter-robes, and wearing a falling band; ‘which new mode,’ says Mr. Evelyn, ‘succeeded the cumbersome ruff: but neither did the bishops or judges give it over so soon, the Lord Keeper Finch being, I think, the very first.’” Reed.