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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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them. The Difference among the Rings of the threeOrders in the State were,as Licetus obferves, Gold Ring®fet with pretious Stones were given to the Senators on*ly ; Plain Rings without Stones to the Knights, andJron Rings to the Plebeians , or Free-born-men j info-nauch that Equejirt dtgnitate donate, and annulo honorare,is a promifeuous Phrafe in Tacitus , to give the Dignityof Knighthood 5 and at the Battle of Canme, bythe.twdMeafures or Rufhels of Gold Rings lent to Carthage, theNumber of theRomanKmghts there flain was computed!

J. 7. At length Freed-Men being created Knights,the jus annulwum, the Right of wearing Gold Rings,became promifeuous.

Among the Germans , the Shield and Lance were ac-counted the grand Badges of Military Honour, orKnighthood. This the Lombards, the Franks, and ourCountry-meft, all defeending out of Germany, ufed, andwas to us (in the Opinion of Sir Hen. Spelman ) theFoundation of the Knightly Order. Much like theancient Germans was the Cuftom of making Knightsamong the It'ijb : And Favine notes the Shield and Lancewere the proper Arms appertaining to a French Knight,which Efquires, Armigers, carried always after theirMailers, Shields and Scutes (as they are vulgarly called)d i. e. Equeftrian Targets, inclining to an Oval, not

Shields or Bucklers of Foot Soldiers.

Another Enlign and Ornament of Knightly Honouris, the Cingulum milhare. or Balteus, which, Varro lays,is Tufcan, lignifying a military Girdle, which weregarnilhed with great Buckles, Studs, and Rings of pure(joid, to Ihew their Dignity and Power in military Com-mands 5 and with fuch a Belt, fet with Pearls andprecious Stones, young Atheljlan was girded, when hereceiv’d Knighthood from his Grandfather King Alfred .Our Knights were no left anciently known by thefeBelts, than by their gilt Swords, Spurs, e?v. Howbeitthe LJfe now only appears in Knights of the Bath.

To this Belt was alio added a Sword, not of OrdinaryUle; and therefore termed the Sword of a Knight ,which was hallowed with great Ceremony.

Another eminent Badge is the Golden Spurs, where-with, at the Time of their Creation, Knights Spurswere wont to be adorned; and to thefe, a little after theConqueft, were added far more and greater Ornaments.They were ufually put on after the Perfon had been

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