Note 417 — ACTUS IV., SCÆNA 1.
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I find blue coats used to be worn on St George's day, but what order of people the fashion was confined to, I have not been able to discover. It is mentioned in epigram 33 of Rubbe and a great cast. The second bowle, by Thomas Freeman, 4to, 1614.
"With's coram nomine keeping greater sway, Then a court blue coat on Saint George's day."
[Blue coats were worn by beadles. See Dyce's Middleton, i. 485.]