CUSTOM OF PRESENTING GLOVES

The following extracts from a MS. "Day-book" of the celebrated Anne Countess of Pembroke, recording the daily events of the last few months of her life passed at Brougham Castle in 1675, afford a further illustration of the custom of presenting gloves (Vol. i. pp. 72. 405.) as a matter of courtesy and kindness; and show, also, that it was not unusual to make presents of small sums of money in exhibition of the same feelings on the part of the donor:— "January, as the year begins on New Year's Day. "10th day, And to-day there dined here with my folks my cousin Thomas Sandford's wife, of Askham,…