royal blazon or coat of arms C R BY THE KING. ΒΆ A Proclamation against waist and excess in Apparel. HIS Majesty taking into His consideration the great vanity and excess in Apparel, now in use in several sorts and degrees of people, and the great waist and consumption of Gold, and Silver therein, (at all times very unfit, and hurtful to particular Persons, and to the Kingdom, but in these times most insufferable) hath taken into His care to provide for the Reformation thereof in as timely, and as convenient a way as may be, and hath thought fit to begin with His Court, and Armies. And doth therefore hereby straight charge, and command all Persons of what degree or quality soever, That they or any of them do not within His Majesty's Court, or Armies, or any the Quarters thereof, wear on or about there Persons, any Lace-Embroidery, Fring, Ribbon, Buttons, Clasps, or Buttons and Loops, of Gold or Silver, or mixed with Gold or Silver, Cloth of Gold, or Cloth of Silver, or any Cloth or Stuff mixed with Gold or Silver, or any Embroidery or Lace, called Bonelace, of Silk, or any Lace called Bonelace, or other Laces, Purls, Cutwork, or Needlework made of Linnen-threed, nor use or wear any Lace-Embroidery, Fring, Ribbon, Buttons, or Buttons and Loops of Gold or Silver, or mixed with Gold or Silver, upon any Saddle, or Furniture of Horse, from and after two Months from the publication of this His Proclamation, as they tender His displeasure. In which His Majesty doth not intent to include the mark of Honour, used by the Knights of the Order of the GARTER, and worn by them upon their Cloaks. And of the observance of this His Proclamation, His Majesty will see there shall be strict notice, and account taken. Given at His Majesty's Court at Oxford, the ninth day of June, in the Nineteenth year of His Reign. God Save the KING. Printed at Oxford by LEONARD LICHFIELD, Printer to the University. 1643.