Gloves

In connection with the subject of the presentation of gloves, I would refer your correspondents to the curious scene in Vicar's *Parliamentary Chronicle*, where "Master Prynne," on his visit to Archbishop Laud in the Tower in May 1643, accepts "a fair pair of gloves, upon the Archbishop's extraordinary pressing importunity;" a present which, under the disagreeable circumstances of the interview, seems to have been intended to convey an intimation beyond that of mere courtesy.