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.