XXV. Februar. 1587.
Certaine notes out of the Statutes aboue mentioned for dispensations with sundry persons not being in any certainetie afore expressed, whereof all such persons as thereby are to be dispensed withall, may be better informed by perusal of the said Statutes.
ALl Officers and seruants waiting vpon the Queenes Maiestie her Housholde, being in her Checke Roll, may weare such Apparell as to them shalbe limitted, licensed and declared in writing by her Maiestie, or by the L. Stewarde of her Housholde, or by the L. Chamber∣laine, they knowing the same to be the Queenes Maiesties pleasure.
There are also speciall and seuerall prouisions conteined in the saide Statute for sundrie degrees of persons as hereafter followeth. First for the L. Chancellour, and L. Treasourer of England, the President of the Kings Counsel, the L. Priuie seale, of what degree soeuer they be: And in like maner there are prouisions for all persons hauing taken degrees of learning in any Vni∣uersitie, and also for any of the Kings most honourable Counsel, Iustices of the Benches, Barons of the Esche∣quer, Master of the Rolles, Sergeants of the Lawe, Masters of the Chancerie, Apprentices of the Lawe, the Kings Phisitions, all head Officers of Townes corporate, Barons of the v. Portes. Prouisions also are there expressed for vtter Barresters in Innes of Court, to weare such Apparell as men that can dispende xx.li. lands may do. And in like maner prouisions are made for Students of the Innes of Court or Chancerie, & seruants to Noble men and Gentlemen for their Dublets or Iackets. Of all which prouisions or exceptions with sundrie others conteined in the said Statute not here particularly expressed, apperteining to a fewe other, euery person is to informe himselfe diligently, howe farre foorth hee or they may by license of the saide prouisions, weare any thing prohibited by the generall wordes of the Lawe.
A prouision is in the Statute of K. Philip and O. Mary, that the same statute shall not extende to any person, being of or aboue the degree of a Knights sonne or daughter, nor to the wife of any such, nor to any Maior or principal Officer of any towne Corporate, nor to the wife of any of them, nor to any of the Queenes seruants in ordinarie wages, and wearing the Queenes ordinarie Liueries, but that they may weare such Apparell, as they lawfully might haue done, before the making of the said Statute.
There is a prouiso also that no person shalbe compelled by the Acte to put away his Prentise, or hired seruant before the ende of his terme, nor to forfeite anything for the keeping of such Prentise or seruant after his offence, vnto the ende of the terme.
A prouiso also is for women to weare in their Cappes, Hattes, Girdels, and Hoods, as they might haue done lawfully before the making of the same Statute.