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a glove are fairly numerous. A remarkable instance is noted in the thirty-third year of the reign of Henry VIII., in which the site of the ancient Monastery of Workshop was given by the king to the Earl of Shrewsbury, to "be held in capite by the service of onetenth of a knight's fee, and by the royal ser vice of finding the king's right-handed glove at his coronation, and to support his right arm on that day, so long as he might hold the sceptre, paying moreover a yearly sum of £23 8s. 6d." The Manor of Elston in Nottinghamshire was held by the annual payment of one pound of cummin seed, a steel needle and two pairs of gloves. Since the earliest records of mankind and governments the glove has been an insignia of vested rights, and as such has borne a prominent and significant part in the cere monials of coronations and installations in office. In the year of 1002 the bishops of Paderborn and Moncerco were put in possession of their sees by receiving a glove. The gloves which the archbishop presents to the king of France during his coronation and which have been blessed are emblematic .of investiture of office, as well as a guaranty of secure possession of the kingdom. The following signal instance of the observance of this property of the glove is recorded: After the death of the bastard German usurper Mainfred, Charles of Anjou deprived the unfortunate German Prince Conradin of both crown and life. The following circum stances are said to have taken place: The last of the house of Hohenstaufen, while ascend ing the scaffold in the market place of Naples, lamented his hard fate, asserting the while his divine right to the crown. Then drawing off his glove, he threw it into the crowd and entreated some one to take it as a token of investiture to his relatives, who would avenge his death and recover his kinedom. A knight sufficiently bold and daring

took it to Peter, King of Aragon, who, by virtue of this investiture, took up arms against the usurper and through the claim transmitted by the glove was afterward crowned at Palmero. The glove upon various occasions, at dif ferent ages, and in separate countries has been used and exhibited as an emblem of security to the person. It is to be related that the unfortunate Queen of Navarre was sent a pair of gloves to pledge her security when she went among her Catholic enemies. History recalls how that pledge of "irrefrag able faith," as Sir Walter Scott puts it, was most infamously violated. Until the first part of the eighteenth cen tury, during the annual fair called the ''Free Mart," a golden or gilt glove was hung out at the jail door in High street, at Ports mouth, England, as a pledge that all persons who attended the fair were secure from ar rest for debt during the fair's continuance, which was usually about fourteen days. This peculiar immunity is said to be the reward for the service of a great crowd of petty criminals, debtors and montebanks, who, when summoned, went from the fair to the relief of a besieged Earl, near Portsmouth, and chased the enemy across the border. The custom of hanging a large white glove upon the portals of the Guild Hall in Devonshire towns as an announcement of the king's grant to the people to hold a fair is still observed. This is a relic of an old custom sanctioned by law and was the legal mode of opening a Free-Mart or market. It was symbolic of the Royal consen( to the privilege of assemblage of people for pleas ure and exchange. The old law says "the king ought always to send his glove, in token of his consent and approval; without which, any law or regulations made for the FreeMart, or market, are void." Since the delivery of the glove was re garded as a necessary part of the ceremonial of investiture with office, it naturally fol