Note 6 — Chapter II
Reading edition
We here transcribe the Rules of the Derby Assembly of about this period; they are interesting and curious—
RULES
To be observed in the Ladies’ Assembly in Derby.
1.—No Attorney’s Clerk shall be admitted.
2.—No Shopkeeper, or any of his or her Family shall be admitted, except Mr. Franceys.
3.—No Lady shall be allowed to Dance in a long white Apron.
4.—All young Ladies in Mantuas shall pay 2s. 6d.
5.—No Miss in a Coat shall Dance without Leave of the Lady of the Assembly.
6.—Whosoever shall transgress any of these Rules, shall be turned out of the Assembly Room.
Several of the above-mentioned Rules having of late been broke through, they are now Printed by our order, and signed by Us, the present Ladies and Governors of the Assembly.
ANNE BARNES.
DOROTHY EVERY.
ELISABETH EYRE.
BRIDGET BAILEY.
R. FITZHERBERT.
HESTER MUNDY.