No. 211 - THE PENNY MAGAZINE - July 18, 1835

Curious Fashion and Anecdote.--In 1612, (10 James I.,) Mr. Edward Hawley of Grey's Inn, coming to court one day, Maxwell (a Scots man) led him out of the room by a black string which he wore in his ear, a fashion then much in use. But this had like to have cost warm blood. Not only Grey's-Inn Society, but all the gentry in London thought themselves concerned in the affront; and Hawley threatened to kill Maxwell whereever he met him, if he refused to fight, which so frighted the king that he sent for the benchers, and made up the quarrel.--Tindal's Notes upon Rapin: from Osborn.

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