RepositoryCheshire Record Office
LevelPiece
ReferenceZAB/1/92
TitleOrders re escheat lands, re officials' dress on feast days
Date1557
Description(William Brid, Mayor.). Certain escheat lands in the Common fields, previously held by the late Alderman William Snede, and taken into the Mayor's hands, to be always held by the Mayor for the time being.
On the principal feast days of the year, the Mayor and Justices to wear their scarlet gowns, and the Aldermen their murrey gowns.
Slight alterations to above, signed by Richard Dutton, [Mayor 1567/73.].
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