1. Tradition still dictates that only the Serjeant at Arms may enter the Commons chamber armed.

2. A serjeant-at-arms wearing the royal livery stopped them and asked their business before allowing them through.

3. William Honing’s great-uncle and namesake came to London from Algarkirk in Lincolnshire, prospered as a merchant and purveyor and became a serjeant of the Acatery in the royal household