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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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$, 5 . We ftiall now obferve the Etymology of Eqm s rMiles/Chevalier, Ritter, and Sir. The Grecians had a Titleof Honour equivalent to the Signification of Eques inthe Latin, from Equus, an Horfe, becaufe one Part ofthe Ceremony, whereby this Honour became confer-red, was the giving of an Horfe 5 or becaufe havingan Horfe at the Publick Charge, they received theStipend of an Horfeman to ferve in the Wars, Horfesbeing Symbols of War, Bello armantur equi. It is tobe noted, That the Degree of Knighthood in the Dia-lects of other Nations hath rhe fame Derivation: Forin the French, a Knight is called Chevalier 5 in the Ger-man, Bidder, or Ritter , q. d ., Rider 3 fo the GhejlagenRedder is interpreted, The dubbed Knight 3 in the Italian ,it is Cavagliero 3 in the old Britijh, Morchog 3 concerningwhich, hear one of Jeffery Chaucer's Scholars.

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And tho’ the Word Miles fignified at firfi any legallyinrolled for the War, which Inrolment was twofold,Honoraria and Vulgar*. 3 yet upon the Decay of the Ro-man Empire, upon the Irruption of the innumerableForces of the Alani, Goths, Vandals, cAc. which confidedin Horfe, their Foot was rendred ufelefs. Miles was nolonger faid of him that ferved on Foot in the Wars, butbegan to be properly fpoken of the Horfeman 5 whenceit came into Vogue, That among the Titles of Nobili-ty, he who had that of Miles bellowed on him, was un-derflood to be Horfeman, or Eques, that is, oftheE-queftrian Dignity.

&lden obferves Miles to be equivocal : and that in theold feodal Laws of the Empire it fignify’d a Gentleman,as the Word Gentleman is fignify’d in Nobilts 5 and withus it hath been frequently ufed to denote both Gentle-men, and Knights 5 for Milites denotes Gentlemen,or great Freeholders, and not dubbed Knights, viz.fuch who hold by Knights Service from a Lord of

 
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