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The History Of the most Noble Order of the Garter : Wherein is set forth An Account of the Town Castle, Chapel, and College of Windsor; with their several Officers ; The Foundation of the Order by King Edward III. ; With the Statutes, and Annals at large, as they have been altered and amended ; An Account of the Habits, Ensigns and Officers of the Order ... To which is prefix'd, A Discourse of Knighthood in General, and the several Orders extant in Europe
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T was, undoubtedly, a good Sentiment inthe firft Collector of this Learned Work,I to introduce, as well as a Difcourfe ofKnighthood in general, a Treatife of allthe feveral Orders that have prevail’d inother Parts of the World $ for thefe intheir Rife and Inftitutions, having a relative Senfe tothe particular Subject he was to illuftrate, feemed toafford him a very good Opportunity of doing it, bybuilding on fo convenient a Foundation.

1 fhall therefore, (tho’ much more confin’d to bre-vity) follow the fame Method, making it ferve as aproper Introduction ; there being many Things in thevoluminous Original, which I conceive may with lefsInconveniency be difpenc’d with.

It was a conftant Maxim in all well-regulated Go-vernments, to give a juft Encouragement to Merit, andthis by proportioning Rewards to the Service done ;for Merit muft be fuppos’d to confift in the Perfor-B mance

 
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