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In the time of Elizabeth, especially at the New Year, a favourite gift was a pair of gloves. These articles were often very daintily embroidered. There is in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, a pair of leather gloves with embroidered gauntlets, said to have been presented to the queen on the occasion * Victoria and Albert Museum, No. 348 (1901). 76 PLATE XXXVIII SLEEVES FOR A TUNIC, in "black work. " About 1600. See page 79 PLATE XXXIX EMBROIDERED HANGING, in black silk and silver-gilt thread. La...te Elizabethan. See page 79 THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY of her visit to the University in 1566. Tradition assigns an earlier origin to another pair, presented, together with other works of art associated with the Denny family, by Sir Edward Denny, Bart. , to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1882. They are of leather, with white satin gauntlets elaborately em- broidered and enriched with numerous seed- pearls. It is believed that they are the gloves recorded to have been given by Henry VIII. To Sir Anthony Denny, who was successively Groom of the Stole, a Privy Councillor, and an Executor of the King, and afterwards one of the guardians of the young king Edward VI.
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