By the queen.  
THe queens majesty considering to what extremities a great number of her subiectes are grown, by excess in apparel, both contrary to the laws of the realm, and to the disorder and confusion of the degrees of all states( wherein always diversity of apparel hath taken place) and finally to the subversion of all good order, by reason of remisenesse and impunity: Hath, with aduise of her counsel, upon good deliberation, thought meet for some degree, towards a reformation hereof, to cause a Summary of some things necessary to this purpose, to be extracted out of certain acts of Parliament: And thereunto hath also added certain orders, devised with thassent of her counsel, for reformation of further excess in apparel not sufferable. All which hereafter ensuying, her majesty willeth to be published, and to be observed 〈◇〉, without hope or expectation of any point of favour to be shewed, either to the officers that shalbe found 〈◇〉 in the execution, or to any person that shalbe found culpable, in any place within the realm, after the 〈◇〉 of fifteen dayes next following the Proclamation hereof.  

certain clauses taken out of the Statute made for reformation of excess of apparel, the .xxiiii. year of the reign of king Henry the eight.  
first, it is ordered, that no man under the degree of a Duke, marquis, earl, and their children, or under the degree of a Baron, unless he be a knight of the order of the garter, shall wear in any part of his apparel, any Wollen cloth made out of this realm, or any of the queens majesties dominions, except in Bonettes onely.  
Item, that no man under the degree of a Barons son, or of a knight, except he may expend two hundred pounds by year, for term of life, over all charges, shall wear any maner of velvet in his gown, coat, or other his uppermost garment: nor any maner of embroidery, or prickyng with gold, silver, or silk, in any part of his apparel, or on thapparell of his Horse or Mule.  
Item, that no man under the said estates and degree, saving such as may dispend in yearly revenues, as is af●resayde, one hundred pounds, above all charges, shall wear any satin, damask, silk Chamblet, or Tastata in his gown, coat, or other his uppermost apparel or garment: nor any velvet, saving in sleeveless Iackettes, Doblettes, Coyffes, Partelettes, and Purses.  
Item that no man under the said degrees, saving the son and heir apparent of a man of three hundred marks by year, above all charges, and such other men as may dispend in yearly revenue, as is aforesaid, forty p●undes over all charges, shall wear in his gown, or any other his uppermost apparel, Chamblet, or silk: nor in any other part of his apparel any silk, saving satin, damask, Taffata, or Sarsenet in his Doblets: and Sarsenet, Chamblet, or Taffata, in the lining of his gowns, or velvet in his sleeveless coats, jackets, ●●●kins, Coystes, caps, Purses, or Partelettes. The colours of Scarlet, Crymsyn, or Blewe, always exc●pted.  
Item, that no man under the said degrees, saving such gentlemen as may dispend in yearly revenues, as is aforesaid, twenty pounds above all charges, shall wear any maner of silk in any apparel of his body, or at his Horse, or Mule, except it be satin, Tastata, Sarsenet, or damask in his doublet, or Coyffe: & Chamblet in his sleeveless Iackettes: or poyntes, laces, or garters, made in england or Wales.  
Item, that no person under the same degrees, saving such as may dispend five pounds by year, as is aforesa●d●, above all charges, shall wear any silk in his Doblettes or Iackettes: nor any thing made out of the ●●alme, saving Chamblet in their Doblettes and Iackettes.  
Item, that no serving man, nor other Yeoman taking wages, nor such other as may not dispend of freehold forty shillings by year, as is aforesaid, shall wear any shirt, or shirt band, under or vpper cap, bonnet or Hat, garnished, mixed, made, or wrought with silk, gold, or silver: nor shall wear any bonnet, or shirt band, made out of the realm of england or Wales.  
Item, no husbandman shall wear in his Doblette, any other thing then is wrought within this realm, F●styan and canvas only except.  
Item, no Seruyngman in husbandry, or journeyman in handicrafts, taking wages, shall wear in his doublet, any other thing then Fustyan, canvas, Leather, or 〈◇〉 cloth.  
¶ Item, yf any man shall use or wear any apparel or other thing, c●●●●ary to the honour of the ◇ remembered, then be s● 〈…〉, shall to 〈◇〉 the apparel and thing so worn, wherewith 〈◇〉 it be garnished, or the value therof, and also, iii. s. iiii. d. in the name of a ●●ne, for every day that he shall so wear the same, contrary to the tenor hereof.   

¶ certain other clauses and branches taken out of the Statutes, made in the first and second year of king Philip and queen Mary, necessary also to be observed, to avoyde the excess of apparel.  
first, that no Englyshman, saving the son and heir apparent of a knight, or such as may of yearly revenues during life, expend twenty pounds above all charges, or be worth in goods two hundreth pounds, shall wear any maner of silk, in or upon his hat, Bonnet. Nightcap, girdle, Scabberde, Hose, shows, or Spurlethers, upon pain of three months imprisonment, and fine of .x. li. for every dayes wearing, contrary to the tenor of this Act.  
Item that if any person or persons, of any estate or degree, knowing any servant of his or theirs to offend, contrary to the Article last before remembered, do not put the same servant out of his or their service, but shall keep in his or their service, the same offeder or offenders, by the space of .xiiii. dayes next after such knowledge had: or so put out, retain him again within one year next after such offence, the same person so retaynyng or keeping in service any such offender, shall forsayte one hundreth pounds.  
provided always, that all and every person and persons, which by any statute lawe, remaining in force, is licensed or appoynted to wear any maner of thing, contrary to the tenor and meaning of any of the Articles before remembered or any part of them, shall and may wear the same to him licensed or appointed to wear, as is aforesaid: Any thing in these Articles to the contrary notwithstanding.   

¶ C●rtaine orders devised by commandment of the queens majesty, with the advice of her privy counsel, to be observed for reformation of the excess in certain kind of apparel, and other things thereto belonging  
first, that no Hosier or other person, shall put or cause to be put, any more in the outsyde of the vpperstockes of Hose for any person, but one yard and one quarter of Cloth, Carsey, or other stuff, not exceeding the like quantity of Carsey. And whereof soever the same shalbe made, that no one of the said vpperstockes shall exceed in compass round about, above one yard and half a quarter, which measure is proved sufficient for persons of the highest stature. And therefore it is ment, that all other persons of meaner statures, shall use less quantity, both in stuff and largeness, according to their statures, without fraud or abuse.  
Item, that no tailor, Hosier, or other person, shall put, or cause to be put in any of the said vpperstockes, above these kinds of lynynges following. first, a lining of linen, or such like stuff next to the leg, and then one lining called a strait lining, which shalbe made of no maner of stuff, but of such as is made & wrought within the queens majesties dominions. And if any person shalbe disposed for his habilitie, to cut and garnish the outside of his Hose, with any thing that he may lawfully w●are, for the plucking out betwixt the panes and cuttes, he shalbe so suffered to do according to his habilitie, not using any thing therein excessively, nor any thing that he may not wear by the laws of the realm. And lastly, it shall also be permitted for any person( being so disposed) to haue the panes of his Hose lined with one other lining only, so as the same be also of stuff made within the queens majesties dominions. And it is ordered that no person under the state of a Baron, shall use any mo lynynges in any vpperstockes of Hose, then is next above mentioned. And that all persons under that degree, shall within ten dayes after the publication hereof, reform their Hose according to these orders.  
Item, it is further ordered, that no man under the degree of a Barons eldest son, except that he be of the order of the garter, or of the privy council, or that may dispend five hundred marks by year, for term of life in possession, above al charges, shall we are any velvet, or satin, or any stuff of like or greater price, in the vpperstockes of his Hose, or in any part therof: or shall garnish the same with any embroderye, or any fringe, lace, or passemayne, of gold, silver, or silk, nor any other garnishing with any silk, except it be for the stitching only of the vpper part to the living: nor shall wear any maner of silk neatherflockes of Hosen, nor any Carsey, or other thing, made out of the queens majesties dominions.  
Item, it is not meant by any of these orders, that such persons attending nere to her majesties person in the Court, as shall haue special licence in writing of her majesty, to wear some silk, to the contrary hereof, shal be molested for the same: so as the same persons do notify their licence unto the lord chamberlain, before they shall do any thing contrary to these orders, and procure their names to be entred into the books of the chamber, in the custody of the gentlemen Vsshers, which shalbe also duly observed by the said Vsshers.  
Item, because it is daily seen what d●●●●●ers do grow, and are likely to increase in the realm, by the increase of numbers of persons taking vpon them to teach the multitude of the common people to play at all kind of weapons and for that purpose set up schools, called schools of fence, in places inconvenient, tending to the great disorder of such people as properly ought to apply their labours and handy works: Therfore her Maies●● orderred and commandeth, that no teacher of fence, shall keep any school or common place of resort, in any place of the realm, but within the liberties of some of the Cities of the realm, where also they shalbe obedient to such orders as the gouernours of the Cities shall appoint to them, for the better keeping of the peace, and for prohibition of resort of such people to the same schools, as are not meet for that purpose, vpon pain to be punished by the said gouernours, according to their discretions.  
Item her majesty also ordereth and commandeth, that no person shall wear any sword, Rapyer, or such 〈◇〉 weapon, that shall pass the length of one yard and half a quarter of the blade, at the uttermost: nor any Dagg●r above the length of .xii. inches in blade at the most: nor any buckler with any point or pike above two inches in length. And yf any Cutler, or other Artificer, shall sell, make, or keep in his house any sword, Rap●●● Dagger, Buckler, or such like, contrary thereunto, the same to be imprisoned, & to make fine at the queens majesties pleasure, and the weapon to be forfeited. And yf any such person shall offend a second time, than the same to be banished from the place and town of his dwelling.  
Item it is further ordered, that all the Articles before remembered, shalbe put in execution in all poyntes, by all maner of magistrates and officers, according to the Statutes, laws, and Proclamations heretofore made and set forth, concerning the same. That is to say, against the offenders of any of the aforesaid Articles, extracted out of any of the said Statutes afore mentioned, according to the purport therof. And for such as shall contemn any of the orders before mentioned, being devised by her majesties commandment, to attach and commit the 〈◇〉 to person and to be there continued & punished, as appertaineth to such as shall wilfully break her majesties comm●undement.  
And for that it is seen necessary, to stay the inordinate devises of Hosyers, for the impugning of these good orders: The queens majesty willeth, that the Maiors & head officers of the city of London and all other Cities and towns corporate, and stewards and Rulers of all other Liberties, & Iustices of peace in all Counties, shall immediately call before them all Hosyers, and bind them in good sums of money to the use of her majesty: and the Infourmer, as in other popular actions, to observe the contents of these orders, and not to abuse the meaning therof with any fraud. And further to proceed therein, as well against the said Hosyers, as against any other offender, for thexecution hereof, as was in sundry Articles published and prescribed by her majesties Proclamation, in the fourth year of her reign.  
Y●uen at greenwich the .xii. day of February. 1565. in the eyghth year of her majesties reign.   
GOD save the queen.   

¶ Imprinted at London in Powles churchyard, by richard jug and John Cawood: Printers to the queens majesty.  
Cum privilegio Regiae Maiestatis.