rous
friends have supplied me with information. I must specially mention with
gratitude Mr Everard Home Coleman, the well-known contributor to _Notes
and Queries_.

Some of my chapters have been previously published in the magazines, but
all have been carefully revised and additions have been made to them.

In conclusion, I hope this work will prove a welcome contribution to the
byways of history.

WILLIAM ANDREWS.

ROYAL INSTITUTION, HULL,
_August 11th_, 1904.

CONTENTS

PAGE
THE BARBER'S POLE 1

THE BARBER'S SHOP 8

SUNDAY SHAVING 21

FROM BARBER TO SURGEON 26

BYGONE BEARDS 33

TAXING THE BEARD 56

POWDERING THE HAIR 59

THE AGE OF WIGS 71

STEALING WIGS 93

THE WIG-MAKERS' RIOT 95

THE MOUSTACHE MOVEMENT 96

INDEX 117

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
The House of Commons in the time of Sir Robert Walpole.
Wigs in Parliament _Frontispiece_

The Barber's Shop, from "Orbis Pictus" 3

A Barber's Shop in the time of Queen Elizabeth 10

William Shakespeare (the Stratford Portrait) 15

Henry VIII. receiving the Barber-Surgeons 29

Bayeux Tapestry 34

John Knox, born 1505, died 1572 37

John Taylor, the Water Poet, born 1580, died 1654 38

The Lord Mayor of York escorting Princess Margaret
through York in 1503. Shows the Beard of the Lord
Mayor 39

Beards in the Olden Time 42

The Gunpowder Conspirators, from a print published
immediately after the discovery. Shows the Beards in
Fashion in 1605 45

Geoffrey Chaucer, born about 1340, died 1400 52

Russian Beard Token, A.D. 1705 58

Egyptian Wig (probably for female), from the British
Museum