WHITE GLOVES AT A MAIDEN ASSIZE

A LIMB OF THE LAW, to a portion of whose Query, in No. 2. (p. 29.), the above is intended as a reply, may consult, on the symbolism of the Hand and Glove, Grimm Deutsches Rechtsaltherthümer, pp. 137. and 152, and on the symbolical use of white in judicial proceedings, and the after feastings consequent thereon, pp. 137. 381. and 869. of the same learned work. [On this subject we have received a communication from F.G.S., referring to Brand's *Popular Antiquities*, vol. ii. p. 79, ed. 1841, for a passage from Fuller's *Mixed Contemplations*, London, 1660, which proves the existence of the pract…