Brewer's: Collar of SS

A decoration restricted to the Lord Chief Justices of the Queen's Bench, the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, the Lord Mayor of London, the Kings-of-Arms, the Heralds, the Sergeant-at-Arms, and the Sergeant Trumpeter. (Coussan's Heraldry.) (See SS.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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