| THE SILVER WAITES' BADGES OF YORK | |||
| Date | Number | Embroidered | Silver |
| 1520 | Sleeve badges | ||
| 1521 | Sleeve badges | ||
| 1522 | Sleeve badges | ||
| 1523 | Sleeve badges | ||
| 1524 | Sleeve badges | ||
| 1525 | Sleeve badges | ||
| 1526 | Sleeve badges | ||
| 1527 | Sleeve badges | ||
| 1544 | 3 | scutcyons....with letters of gold for my lord mayour name | |
| 1547 | 3 | scutchons....wyth letters of gold for my lord mayour name | |
| 1557 | * syluer cheyne with the skutcheon (Rbt Husthwaite) | ||
| 1559 | Sleeve badges | ||
| 1561 | Scutchoons....with lettres for my Lord mayour name | ||
| 1562* | Sleeve badges | ||
| 1566 | 3 + 1 | a newe syluer [aggr] Cheyne agreeable with the thother iij cheynes | |
| 1571 | Four chains mentioned | ||
| 1572 | Cheynes Cognysances | ||
| 1584 | 4 | newe florishinge and trimminge of the Scutchons and Chynes | |
| 1585 | 4 | ....and foure connysantes | foure collours with skuchions and foure connysantes (Rbt Hewite = Hewet) |
| Full description with weights given | |||
| 1592 | siluer Cheyne and Scutchin (Jno Watson) | ||
| 1593 | 4 + 1 | the Cheyne and Conysent which is already made (Xpofer Smith & Cuth Thompson) | |
| and that a newe Connisent shalbe forthwith made....and a newe Cheyne | |||
| the sayd Conysentes and Cheynes | |||
| 1601 | cheyne & Conysent | ||
| 1631 | Citties liuery with a Coninzant &c bearing the Cities armes | ||
| 1639 | and that their Cognizances bee new burnished | ||
| 1639 | for guilding the waytes scocheons | ||
| * 1557 the first mention of chains with scutcheons. NB that by this date the scutcheons | |||
| were on the chains and embroidered cognisances had been around since at least | |||
| 1544. Holes in the margins of the scutcheons suggest that at one time they had been | |||
| sleeve badges, and that before 1544 when the embroidered arm badges were being | |||
| made for the waites to wear. Were the scutcheons of 15th C manufacture? Their style | |||
| suggests that apparently none were replaced, so what we have should all be | |||
| original 16 (15?)th C originals. | |||
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