POCKETS.

Mr. Gifford relates the preceding anecdote, in a note on his Juvenal,

from Macrobius. He makes the poet draw the farthings from his “pocket:”

but the pocket was unknown to the Greeks and Romans. Mr. Fosbroke says

the men used the girdle, and the women their bosom; and that Strutt

thinks the scrip, and purse, or bag, were succedanea. The Anglo-Saxon

and Norman women wore pocketting sleeves; and sleeves with pockets in

them, mentioned by DuCange, Matthew Paris, Malmesbury, and Knighton,

were searched, before the wearers could be admitted to the royal

presence. Sleeve pockets are still worn by the monks in Portugal.

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