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120 MANNER OF RYDING THE 1681.
5. Where there be double elections of Commissioners, neither are to
ride.
6. The Nobility are to ride in their robes, and with footmantles.
7. The Officers of State who are not noblemen, and who have gowns
peculiar to their office, are to ride in these gowns.
8. The whole members are to ride covered, excepting these who carry
the Honours.
9. The Lyon, Heraulds, Pursevants and Trumpets ride immediatly be-
fore the Honours ; the Lyon in his coat and robe, chain and batton
alone, and immediatly before the Sword ; the rest with their coats and
footmantles, bareheaded in their accustomed order.
10. The two Macers of Council, and four Macers of Session, ride on
each side of the Honours bareheaded, with footmantles ; the two macers
of counsel attending the Crown, and the four macers of session the Scep-
tor and Sword.
1 1 . The higher degree, and most honourable of that degree, is to
ride ahvayes last.
1 2. Every Duke is to have eight Lackeys, every Marquess six, every
Karl four, every Viscount three, every Lord three, every Commissioner
for a Shire two, and every Commissioner from Burghs one ; and every
Nobleman is to have a Gentleman bareheaded to walk by him, and to
bear up his train, and these gentlemen are, at their entry to the house,
to stand without the Bar.
13. The Arch Bishops and Bishops are to ride in their gowns and
tipotts with their footmantles, and the Arch Bishops may have eight
Lackeys, and Bishops three, and each of them is to have a Gentleman
bareheaded to walk by him, and to bear up his Train.
14. The Noblemens Lackeys may have over their Liveries, velvet
coats with their badges, i. e. their creists and motto's done on plate, or
embroidered upon the back and breast, conform to ancient custom ; or
their ordinar liveries.