(sweet scents
excepted), with any starch to be made use of for making hair-powder,
under a pain of forfeiting the hair-powder and L50, and that any person
who should expose the same for sale should forfeit it and L20." Other
details were given in the deed, and the Barber-Surgeons gave it their
support, and promised twenty guineas towards the cost of passing the
Bill through Parliament.
A few years prior to the above proceeding we gather from the
_Gentleman's Magazine_ particulars of some convictions for using powder
not made in accordance with the laws of the land. "On the 20th October,
1745," it is recorded, "fifty-one barbers were convicted before the
commissioners of excise, and fined in the penalty of L20, for having in
their custody hair-powder not made of starch, contrary to Act of
Parliament: and on the 27th of the same month, forty-nine other barbers
were convicted of the same offence, and fined in the like penalty."
Before powder was used, the hair was generally greased with pomade, and
powdering operations were attended with some trouble.
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