An Endeavour to Classify the Sepulchral Remains in Northamptonshire Or a Discou
An Endeavour to Classify the Sepulchral Remains in Northamptonshire Or a Discou
Charles Henry Hartshorne
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With such models as these to study and consult, there is no excuse for them departing from a true and faithful portraiture, or for clothing their heroes in garments that were never worn ; for anticipating fashions by centuries, or covering the body with habiliments as unlike their real ones, as our modern clothes will be to those introduced two or three hundred years hence — when hats and bonnets will be supplanted by more graceful coverings — when perhaps, our conquerors from Pekin will have b...rought into vogue their own modes and materials — when the wear of ]'lan- chester cottons will be superseded by the silks wove at Weedon and Blisworth, and Roade, and when this flourish- ing town of Northampton will have dwindled into a dila- pidated village, and all its coimnerce and wealth have become transferred to the Railway Stations. The order in which Sir Roger de Trumpington, and Knights of the period, clothed themselves in armour, was most probably this". 2 Chaucer, in his Rime of Sire Tliopas, describes the manner in ■\vhicli tliat Knight dressed himself to have been thus.
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