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Title: At the Sign of the Barber's Pole
Studies In Hirsute History

Author: William Andrews

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[Illustration: The House of Commons in the time of Sir Robert Walpole.
Wigs in Parliament.]

AT THE SIGN
OF THE BARBER'S POLE

STUDIES IN HIRSUTE HISTORY

BY
WILLIAM ANDREWS

AUTHOR OF "BYGONE ENGLAND"
ETC.

COTTINGHAM, YORKSHIRE
J.R. TUTIN
1904

PREFACE

Connected with the barber and his calling are many curiosities of
history. In the following pages, an attempt has been made, and I trust
not without success, to bring together notices of the more interesting
matters that gather round the man and his trade.

In the compilation of this little book many works have been consulted,
and among those which have yielded me the most information must be
mentioned the following:--

"Annals of the Barber-Surgeons of London," by Sidney Young, London,
1890.

"An Apology for the Beard," by Artium Magister, London, 1862.

"Barbers' Company," by G. Lambert, F.S.A., London, 1881.

"Barber-Surgeons and Chandlers," by D. Embleton, M.D.,
Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1891.

"Barber's Shop," by R.W. Proctor, edited by W.E.A. Axon,
Manchester, 1883.

"Philosophy of Beards," by T.S. Cowing, Ipswich.

"Some Account of the Beard and the Moustachio," by John Adey
Repton, F.S.A., London, 1839.

"Why Shave?" by H.M., London.

_Notes and Queries_, and other periodicals, as well as encyclopaedias,
books on costume, and old plays, have been drawn upon, and nume