_Gloves_ (No. 5. p. 72.).--In connection with the subject of the
presentation of gloves, I would refer your correspondents to the curious
scene in Vicar's _Parliamentary Chronicle_, where "Master Prynne," on
his visit to Archbishop Laud in the Tower in May 1643, accepts "a fair
pair of gloves, upon the Archbishop's extraordinary pressing
importunity;" a present which, under the disagreeable circumstances of
the interview, seems to have been intended to convey an intimation
beyond that of mere courtesy.