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== Tudor court ==
== Tudor court ==
The privy purse accounts of [[Elizabeth of York]] include payments to Mistress Lokke, a [[silkwoman]], who supplied her with frontlets and bonnets, and for the purchase of a gold frontlet.<ref>Nicholas Harris Nicolas, ''Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York'' (London: Pickering, 1830), p. 14, 68, 92.</ref> In 1537, Queen [[Jane Seymour]] forbade her gentlewomen from wearing the newly fashionable [[French hood]], apparently preferring the gable style.<ref>Karen Margrethe Høskuldsson, 'From Hennin to Hood', ''Medieval Clothing and Textiles'', 17 (2023), p. 170. {{doi|10.1017/9781800101371.007}}</ref> [[John Husee]] informed [[Honor Grenville, Viscountess Lisle|Lady Lisle]] that her daughter, as an attendant to the Queen, was required to instead wear a "bonnet and frontlet of velvet", lamenting that it "became her nothing so well as the French hood".<ref>[[Mary Anne Everett Green]], ''Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies of Great Britain'', 2 (London: Colburn, 1846), p. 314.</ref>
The privy purse accounts of [[Elizabeth of York]] include payments to Mistress Lokke, a [[silkwoman]], who supplied her with frontlets and bonnets, and for the purchase of a gold frontlet.<ref>Nicholas Harris Nicolas, ''Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York'' (London: Pickering, 1830), p. 14, 68, 92.</ref> In 1517, [[Lady Catherine Gordon]], the widow of [[Perkin Warbeck]], owned a gold "flat chain for paste" for wearing on her hood.<ref>John Montgomery Traherne, ''Historical notices of Matthew Cradock'' (Llandovery, 1840), p. 16.</ref>
In 1537, Queen [[Jane Seymour]] forbade her gentlewomen from wearing the newly fashionable [[French hood]], apparently preferring the gable style.<ref>Karen Margrethe Høskuldsson, 'From Hennin to Hood', ''Medieval Clothing and Textiles'', 17 (2023), p. 170. {{doi|10.1017/9781800101371.007}}</ref> [[John Husee]] informed [[Honor Grenville, Viscountess Lisle|Lady Lisle]] that her daughter, as an attendant to the Queen, was required to instead wear a "bonnet and frontlet of velvet", lamenting that it "became her nothing so well as the French hood".<ref>[[Mary Anne Everett Green]], ''Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies of Great Britain'', 2 (London: Colburn, 1846), p. 314.</ref>


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