THE FIRST PRELATE THAT WORE A WIG

was Archbishop Tillotson. In the great dining-room of Lambeth Palace,

he says, there are portraits of all the Archbishops, from Laud to the

present time, in which may be observed the gradual change of the

clerical habit, in the article of wigs. Archbishop Tillotson was the

first prelate that wore a wig, which then was not unlike the natural

hair, and worn without powder. In 1633, 21 James 1st,

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