All You Need Is Glove... To Throw Down the Gauntlet
Western Daily Press › September 16, 2007
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He was the first king of the whole of Britain, the man who united the nation and threw down the gauntlet to everyone from the Gunpowder Plotters to the monarchs of Europe.
Little remains of the legacy of James I, but that very gauntlet survived and next week it, and an astonishing array of rare 17th- century gloves, are going on display in a unique exhibition in the West.See the full content of this document
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All You Need Is Glove... To Throw Down the Gauntlet
For the noblemen and monarchs of the turbulent 1600s, the gauntlet was not just a way of keeping their hands warm and clean amid the muck of late medieval life. They were fashi...
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