"Were there now, (says Michaell Sparke the stationer,) in these times such sentence and execution performed, as the then learned Lord Cook gave on that formentor of lust, Mistris Anne Turner, whose sentence was to be hang'd at Tiburn in her yellow Tiffiny Ruff and Cuffs, being she was the first inventer and wearer of that horrid garb; were there now in these daies the like upon such notorious black-spotted faces, naked hrests and backs, no doubt but that ugly fashion would soon there end in shame and detestation, which now is too vainly followed; for never since the execution of her in that yellow ruff and cuffs, there hanged with her, was ever any seen to wear the like."
"Sir Jervas Yelvis also was executed in full dress, hee being arrayed in a black suit, and black jerkin with hanging sleeves (aptly worn on the occasion),
