A
Decree
of
the
Priuye
Counsell
at
westminster
.
Anno.
1
.
5.5.9.xx
.
October
Articles
agreed
vppon
by
the
Lordes
and
other
of
the
Quenes
Maiesties
pryuy
Counsayle
,
for
a
reformation
of
their
seruauntes
in
certayne
abuses
of
apparell
,
thereby
to
geue
example
to
al
other
Lordes
,
noble
men
and
Gentlemen
.
EUery
Lord
and
Mayster
hauing
seruauntes
,
shall
furth
with
cause
a
viewe
to
be
taken
of
al
his
seruantes
,
attending
about
the
Citie
,
and
considre
their
degres
and
habilities
of
lyuyng
,
how
many
may
dispende
and
be
assessed
to
the
Subsedye
at
.xx.
pound
of
yerely
lyuelyhode
,
or
at
two
hundrede
pound
in
goodes
,
and
therevpon
cause
them
to
vnderstand
what
is
lawefull
for
them
to
weare
in
their
apparel
,
and
take
ordre
to
reforme
it
,
in
thys
maner
or
such
lyke
.
FYrst
as
many
as
haue
any
apparell
vnlawefull
for
them
to
weare
,
and
can
withoute
their
losse
leaue
the
same
,
to
leaue
it
furthwith
,
and
to
be
strayghtly
charged
that
they
procure
no
newe
.
NExt
that
summe
mete
persons
be
assigned
by
the
Maister
to
take
a
certaine
viewe
of
all
the
seruauntes
presente
apparrell
,
beyng
vnlawefull
,
and
make
a
certaine
boke
thereof
,
and
therevpon
gyue
commaundemente
that
noo
newe
be
bought
or
worne
after
the
sayd
viewe
taken
.
THyrdlye
these
bookes
shal
be
delyuered
eyther
into
the
counting
house
,
or
to
the
gentlemen
huyshers
,
there
to
remayne
,
to
thend
that
yf
any
shal
be
empeched
for
wearyng
of
any
unlawefull
apparrell
,
that
then
the
same
myght
be
tryed
whether
it
were
newely
prouyded
sithens
the
viewe
taken
or
no
.
ITem
,
order
shal
be
taken
and
charge
gyuen
by
the
Lordes
and
Maysters
,
that
vpon
this
reformation
the
mallycyous
inuencion
and
frowarde
nature
of
any
seruauntes
,
shall
not
deuyse
any
newe
fashion
or
sorte
of
apparrell
,
that
should
be
as
sumptuous
as
the
former
,
though
not
contrary
to
the
wordes
of
the
statute
,
thereby
sekyng
by
fraud
to
auoyde
the
payne
of
the
lawe
,
with
which
peruerse
condition
the
wisedome
of
the
Maysters
muste
mete
,
both
to
chastyse
such
lewde
seruauntes
,
and
to
confort
such
as
wyll
lyue
in
ordre
and
honest
and
cumly
maner
.
ANd
because
many
Gentlemen
and
seruauntes
,
haue
at
this
present
,
summe
by
giftes
,
some
otherwise
,
furres
,
embrodiries
,
and
other
garmentes
,
or
ornamentes
,
contrary
to
the
lawes
of
the
Realme
.
It
is
conuenient
that
euery
person
hauing
such
beyng
not
well
hable
to
chaunge
the
same
.
But
meanyng
hereafter
to
obserue
the
lawe
&
not
be
empeached
for
hys
default
herein
,
shall
delyuer
a
true
certificate
signed
with
his
hand
,
of
al
such
his
apparell
as
is
not
laweful
for
his
degree
to
the
Lord
Chamberlayne
of
the
Quenes
Maiesties
household
,
if
he
meane
to
weare
the
same
apparrell
in
any
the
Quenes
Maiesties
Chambers
,
or
to
the
comptynge
house
,
if
he
meane
to
weare
thee
same
,
wythin
the
gates
of
the
Courte
.
So
as
for
the
time
such
persone
as
were
their
former
vnlawefull
apparrell
maye
bee
forborne
and
spared
.
ANd
it
semeth
not
vnmete
to
refrayne
the
couetuouse
lewde
condition
of
the
Taylers
,
and
hosyers
,
that
euerye
Lord
and
Mayster
,
eyther
by
hym selfe
,
or
some
his
principall
officers
prescrybe
to
al
maner
of
hys
seruauntes
,
that
none
of
them
excede
〈◇〉
conuenyent
and
reasonable
price
for
their
garmentes
,
and
specially
for
their
hose
,
wherein
a
diuersitie
would
be
had
betwene
them
which
be
hable
,
and
so
assessed
in
Subsedy
,
either
at
.xx.
pound
yerely
lyuelyhode
,
or
two
hundred
pound
in
goodes
,
and
all
others
that
be
not
.
And
yet
notwythstandynge
that
all
thys
trauayle
is
to
be
taken
for
reformation
of
the
shamefull
excesse
of
Apparrell
,
as
thoccasyon
of
dyuerse
of
pouertye
,
in
others
,
of
robberies
and
such
lyke
.
Yet
it
is
mete
and
conuenient
that
all
Lordes
seruauntes
(
specially
in
the
Courte
)
shoulde
go
semely
and
cumly
for
the
honor
of
their
Maister
,
which
may
be
well
done
,
wearyng
the
commodities
of
this
Realme
,
and
vsynge
measure
in
all
shape
and
forme
of
apparrell
.
God
saue
the
Quene
.