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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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for the Reception of* Lepers : For in that Time theMonks of this Order added Martial Difcipline to theirSkill in Phyfick ; and for their Services againft the Infi-dels, begat a great Elteem from Baldwin II. King ofJemfalem, andfome of his Succeflors. In procels ofTime this Order decayed, being fupprefled by Inno-cent VIII. who united it to the HofpitaUers at Rhodes, A. D.1490. Neverthelefs Pitts IV. reftored it A. D'. 1565.confirming the old, and granting new Privileges, ma-king his Kinfman Don Janot de ChaJliUon great Matter.PimV. A. D. *567- enlarged their Privileges, permit-ting them to take one Wife only, to wit, a Virgin, nota Widow. Laftly, Pope Gregory XIII. A. D. 1572.bellowed the Great Mafterfhip of this Order uponEmanuel Philibert Duke of Savoy, and his Succeflors, andprefcribed them the Ci/lercian Rule j and accordingly hehad the Inveftiture and Collation of the Commandmes inSpain and Italy.

5. Knights of the Teutonick Order, or Pruffia.

In the Time of the Holy War, a wealthy Gentlemaaof Germany, who dwelt at Jerusalem, commiferatingthe Condition of his Country-men, coming thither inDevotion, made his Houle their Receptacle5 afterwardshe erefted a Chapel to the Blefled Virgin, whence theyhad allb the Title of Marian Knights. To him aflocia-ted other Germans, and in fhort time encrealing, theyprofefled the Military Employments of the Templars ,and followed the A£ts of Piety and Charity of theHofpitallers. A . D. 1190. or 1191. they elected HenryWalpott their firft Matter, and the following Year wereConfirmed by Celejline III. under the Title of KnightsTeutonic's, or Dutch Knights, of the Hofpitalof St. Marythe Virgin, vowing Poverty, Obedience, and Charity,and following the Rule of St. Augujlin. Their Statutes■Were compoied from thofe of the Hofpitallers and Tern-plan, and One Article was, That none but Germansfould be of this Order. Their Habit was a WhiteMantle, on the Breaft a plain Blaclg Crofs, but fomemake it a Black, Crofs voided with a Crofs Potent.At Aeon they erefted another Hofpital; but after that

 
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