thilk mark muste be take bi her clothing or bi sum mark or signe to be sett and fastned into her clothing. And thanne ferther thus: Sithen the al hool greet clothing is abler to ȝeue this now seid knowing, than schulde be eny lasse mark to be sett into the same clothing; it folewith that the al [al the, MS. (first hand), the marks of transposition being pro|bably in another hand; but the correction is sanctioned by the analogy of other passages.] hool outward seable habit schulde rather be ordeyned into this mark, than eny other lasse thing.
Confirmacioun herto may be this: Not withstonding that wommen mowen be knowe sumwhat fro men bi her natural visagis, ȝit it is resonable and profitable that thei be knowe asunder bi her outward habitis. Wherfore miche rather it is resonable, that a religiose persoon be knowe bi outward habit fro othere per|soones not religiose, sithen bi her natural bodies thei mowen not so [so is added in a later hand.] weel be knowe asundir as mowen be asunder knowe men and wommen. Also it is holde resonable, alloweable, and profitable, that oon temporal lordis meyne haue clothing dyuers fro the clothing of an other temporal lordis meyne; namelich, whanne thei schulen be medlid to gidere in sum oon citee or toun, that the seruauntis of the oon lord mai be knowe fro the seruauntis of the other lord. And in lijk maner in the citee of London it is holde for resonable and profitable, that the persoones of oon craft haue cloth|ing dyuers fro the persoones of an other craft. And al this is for lasse nede or for lasse good cause, than is the cause for whiche religiose persoones schulden be knowen openly fro persoones not religiose. Wherfore it is alloweable, good, resonable, [good, resonable, is added in the margin by a later hand.] and profitable, that religiose persoones haue habit dyuers fro the habit of
