Note 108 — NEWES FROM MORE-LANE.
Reading edition
[17.] In a great Corporation in England, the Serjeants108 desired the Mayor they might have Gowns as formerly, for which they had a president:109 Gowns, says the Mayor, and why not Coats? So calling for a pair110 of Cards, said he could cut off that Custom by a president also: he shewed them the four Kings and four Queens in Gowns, but the four Knaves all in short Coats.