According to the television programme about St Giles Cathedral in
Edinburgh on Monday night, Scottish presbyterians did wear their hats in
church, something I found very interesting.
Kate Thompson
Peter B Park wrote:
>In the 1630s Robert Place, curate of Torver in Lancashire, was prosecuted in
>the local manor court leet for knocking a man's hat off in the church -
>there was another incident where he knocked off another man's hat in the
>churchyard. In both cases he was found guilty. This suggests that it was
>normal for men to wear their hats in church at this period - was this the
>case?
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>Peter Park,
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>Walton on Thames, Surrey.
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