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" For the outrageous and excessive apparel of divers people, against their estate and degree, to the great destruction and impoverishment of all the land... "
The Intellectual Observer - Page 170
1868
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The Pictorial History of England: Being a History of the People, as Well as ...

George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1839 - 932 pages
...centuries. The first we shall notice are the succession of acts passed in 1363,* for the correction " of the outrageous and excessive apparel of divers people, against their estate and degree." This collection of sumptuary regulations begins with an ordinance touching the diet of domestic servants...
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The North American Review, Volume 51

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1840 - 568 pages
...lour acate nautrement, ne nule chose dor, dargent, nenbroydez, aymelez, ne de soye, ne rien appendant people, against their estate and degree, to the great...ordained, that grooms, as well servants of lords as those of handicraftsmen and of artificers, be served to eat and to drink once a day, of flesh or offish,...
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The Pictorial History of England: Being, a History of the People ..., Volume 2

George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1841 - 524 pages
...centuries. The first we shall notice are the succession of acts passed in 1363,* for the correction " of the outrageous and excessive apparel of divers people, against their estate and degree." This collection of sumptuary regulations begins with an ordinance touching the diet of domestic servants...
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The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society ..., Volume 1

Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1856 - 552 pages
...few words about regulating the diet of servants ; but the chief clauses are intended to restrain " the outrageous and excessive apparel of divers people against their estate and degree." The statute begins with servants, called grooms — as well servants of lords as of artificers and...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 201

Early English newspapers - 1856 - 910 pages
...of Edward III. exist, (37 Edward III. cc. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14,) which are intended to restrain "the outrageous and excessive apparel of divers people against their estate and » " Forasmuch as drapers, tailors, and others in the city of London and other places within this realm,...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for ..., Volume 9

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 884 pages
...and the use of foreign cloth was allowed to the royal family alone. Act 37 Edward III. declare» that the outrageous and excessive apparel of divers people against their estate and degree is the destruction and impoverishment of the land, and prescribes the apparel of the various classes...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for ..., Volume 9

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 884 pages
...and the use of foreign cloth was allowed to the royal family alone. Act 37 Edward III. declares that the outrageous and excessive apparel of divers people against their estate and degree is the destruction and impoverishment of the hind, and prescribes the apparel of the various classes...
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Chaucer's England, by Matthew Browne

William Brighty Rands - 1869 - 346 pages
...Act of Parliament was passed, namely, 37 Edward III. cap. 8, the object of which was to put down ' the outrageous and excessive apparel of divers people...destruction and impoverishment of all the land.' It would be impertinent to quote the whole of this Act of Parliament, but among other provisions, ' it...
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Chaucer's England, Volume 2

William Brighty Rands - Great Britain - 1869 - 352 pages
...Act of Parliament was passed, namely, 37 Edward III. cap. 8, the object of which was to put down ' the outrageous and excessive apparel of divers people...destruction and impoverishment of all the land.' It would be impertinent to quote the whole of this Act of Parliament, but among other provisions, ' it...
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The national history of England, by E. Farr [and others].

England - 1873 - 664 pages
...persons of different ranks. Tho "Statute of Apparel," passed AD 1363, had for its object tho restraining "the outrageous and excessive apparel of divers people against their estate and degree." It begins with prescribing what dress was to bo worn by servants called grooms, as well servants of...
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