BY RICHARD DAVEY. JAY'S, REGENT STREET, W. Wreath composed of the flowers mentioned in Shakespeare's dirges ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.] [COPYRIGHT. PUBLISHED AT JAY'S, REGENT STREET, W. LONDON M c CORQUODALE & CO., Limited CARDINGTON STREET, N.W. A LTHOUGH tradition has not informed us whether our first parents made any marked change in their scanty garments on the death of their near relatives, it is certain that the fashion of wearing mourning and the institution of funereal ceremoni

( a ) In the 18th Century, the undertaker issued his handbills—gruesome things, with grinning skulls and shroud-clad corpses, thigh bones, mattocks and pickaxes, hearses, etc.: "These are to notice that Mr. John Elphick, Woollen Draper, over against St Michael's Church, in Lewes, hath a good Hearse, a Velvet Pall, Mourning Cloaks, and Black Hangings for Rooms, to be lett at Reasonable Rates. "He also sells all sorts of Mourning and Half Mourning, all sorts of Black Cyprus for Scarfs and Hatbands

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