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| | Elizabethan Sumptuary Statutes |
 | | lucernes; embroidery or tailor's work having gold or silver or pearl therein: except dukes, marquises, earls, and their children, viscounts, barons, and knights being companions of the Garter, or any person being of the Privy Council. |
 | | Velvet in gowns, coats, or other uttermost garments; fur of leopards; embroidery with any silk: except men of the degrees above mentioned, barons' sons, knights and gentlemen in ordinary office attendant upon her majesty's person, and such as have been employed in embassages to foreign princes. |
 | | Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1530, courtesy Tudor and Elizabethan Portraits. |
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