Courts Act, 1476

XVI. AND XVII EDWARD IV

COURTS ACT 1476

CHAPTER XXII.

Lords to wear their robes in Parliament. Judges and Barons to wear their habits and colfs in term time.

Also, it is ordained that every lord spiritual and temporal sitting in the Parliament House shall be in their Parliament robes under pain of forfeiture for each spiritual and temporal lord of 100 shillings to be levied to the use of the King, and that every Judge and Baron of the Exchequer shall be in their habits and coifs in term time in such manner and form as the King's Judges and Barons of the Exchequer in term time use in England. Provided as regards the robes, that this Act shall not take effect until the feast of Easter next coming.