. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . d yearsafter that of Edward III.,is granted at the prayer ofthe commons ; and has re-ference only to the aver-ment that the commonsof the realm, as weU. menas women, have worn anddo daily wear excessive andinordinate array. Amongstthe commons, there areincluded, with their wivesand children, the knightunder the estate of a lord,other than lords children ;the knight bachelor ; theesquire and gentleman. Butthe amount of possession istaken into account ; andthe esquire a
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . d yearsafter that of Edward III.,is granted at the prayer ofthe commons ; and has re-ference only to the aver-ment that the commonsof the realm, as weU. menas women, have worn anddo daily wear excessive andinordinate array. Amongstthe commons, there areincluded, with their wivesand children, the knightunder the estate of a lord,other than lords children ;the knight bachelor ; theesquire and gentleman. Butthe amount of possession istaken into account ; andthe esquire and gentlemanhaving 40?. a year may indulge in damask or satin forbidden to their lesswealtliy neighbours. Mayors, sherifls, and aldermen, have special the class of esquire and gentleman are those who have obtained aposition by their wealth ; and those who have 40?. of yearly value mayrejoice in furs, and their wives in gilt girdles. The men possessed of lessthan 40^. yearly are debarred from furs, and fustian, and scarlet cloth. Theyeoman, and the persons under his degree, are to have no stuffing in their. Group ol Artisaus. * Chronicon n.—39. T Siee Vol. 1. p. 479. LIFRARY XJKTVT^RPTTY OF :S-^TA BARBARA 102 DISTINCTIONS OF BIRTH. rU50-1185. doublets. Lastly, the servants in husbandry and artificers are to wear noclothin- of which the clotli shall cost more than two shiUiiigs the broad second statute of 1-483 prescribes what peculiar apparel of cloth of goldor silk shaU be forbidden to all below the royal rauk ; what to those below aduke ; what to those below a lord, of whom the kuight only shall wear velvet inhis doublet. By a comprehensive clause no man under the estate of a lordshould wear cloth of foreign manufacture ; and the old price of cloth is againfixed for labourers and artificers. All other ordiuauces are repealed ; butthis statute contains one repealing clause which shows how vainly Lords andCommons attempted to
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