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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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1307. all the Knights of this Order in France were, inone and the fame Hour, feized and imprifon’d by PhilipIs Be!, King of France, with Confent or Pope Clement v.being charged with moft infamous and damnable Crimes.And in England, Anno x. Ed.: 2. they were alfo appre-hended afterwards, rendred Convi&s, and all theirPoffeiftons feized into the King’s Hands. Howbeit theBifhop of York, commiferating their deplorable Condi-tion within his Dioce/s, charitably difpofed of them inMonaileries under his Jurifdiction. Two Years aftermany of thefe Knights were burn’d in France, and$aques de la Maule, the laft great Mafter, differed thefame Fate, having feen, A.D. 1312. his Order by Pa-pal Authority, condemned and perpetually diflblved 3after which their Lands were annexed to the Hofpital-lers, for their Service againft the Turks.

Thus they fell, no lefs famous for Martial Atchiev-ments in the Eaft, than their Wealth in the Weft; forthey enjoyed 16000 Lordfhips in Europe, and a SpanifhAuthor tells us, their Revenue was Two Millions year-ly, and had in pofleflion 40000 Commanderies, whichoccaiion’d divers to think they were falfly accufed, andby fuborned Witnefles, merely upon the Ambition andcovetous Defign of Philip King of France.

4. Knights of the Order of St. Lazarus.

These were at the firft a Fraternity of ReligiousMonks, after which they became Ecclefiaftick Knights,in Imitation of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre.Pope Pius V. 1572. ftiles it Ant'.cjuijfmum Charitatis evMilitia Chrifti Ordinem 3 yet it muft be underrtood as'anOrder of Monks, founded by St. Bafl, about the timeok Julian the Apoftatc, A. D. 3 66 . upon a CharitableAccount, viz. to take Care of Leprous Perfons (a Ma-lady frequent in the Eaft) by which they became fe-parated, even from the Converfation of Men. Atlength, through the Incurfion of the Barbarians, andInjury of Time, it lay extinguifh’d, but was revivedwhen the Latin Princes joyned in a Holy League to re-cover the Holy Land. And a famous Hofpital wascteaed at Jerufalem, under the Title of St. Lazarus,

 
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