❧ Certaine other clauses of the Statutes, made in the first and second yere of King Philip and Queene Mary, necessary also to be obserued, to auoyde the excesse of apparell.
FIrst, that no Englishman, sauing the sonne and heyre apparant of a Knight, or such as may of yeerely reuenues during life, expend twentie poundes aboue all charges, or be worth in goods two hundreth poundes, shall weare any maner of silke, in or vpon his Hatte, Bonnet, Nightcap, Gyrdle, Scabberd, Hose, Shooes, or Spurlethers, vpon payne of three moneths imprisonment, and fine of x.li. for euery dayes wearing, contrary to the tenour of this Act.
Item, that if any person or persons, of any estate or degree, knowing any seruaunt of his or theirs to offende, contrary to the Article last before remembred, do not put the same seruaunt out of his or their seruice, but shall keepe in his or their seruice the same offendour or offendours, by the space of xiiii. dayes next after such know∣ledge had: or so put out, retayne him againe within one yeere next after such offence, the same person so retay∣ning or keeping in seruice any such offender, shall forfayte one hundreth pounds.