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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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Profeffion* Philip VII. Son to the Founder, enlarg’dtheir Lands and Privileges, and added a Border ofGold to the Badge of the blue Crofs , as obferved atthis Day.

In Italy, France and Spain , there are a Sort of Monksthat have the Title of Knights of St. Anthony , whichobferve the Rule of St. Augujiin , and they wear aplain Crofs like that in ^Ethiopia ; but the Principalsof thefe wear a double St. Anthony's Crofs of blue Sa-tin, the one above the other. Their chief Seat is atVienne in Dauphine , of which Place the General of theOrder bears the Title of Abbot, the Monaftery beingereCted into an Abbey 1297. in Honour of St. Anthony,whofe Body was tranllated thither from Conftantinople ;and all other Places built in Honour of his Name, weremade fubjeCt to him A. D. 1523. Moraem calls themThe Plofpitallers of St. Anthony, and fays they begun inFrance A. D. 1x21. from Gajion a Nobleman of Vienna.But Baronim and others fay, Gajton and Germ inftitutedit earlier, making the Letter Thau their Enfign orBadge.

13. the Conftantinian Angelich Knights of St.George in Greece, but now in Italy.

Marqjuez, a Spanifh Writer, makes this one of the firftMilitary Orders in Chriflendom, and derives a formalInftitution, Rules and Laws from Confiantine the Great,which appears little better than Fabulous, thereforewe fhall omit his Account.

The Great Mailers have their chief Seat and Con-vent at Brianno rear Venice, and is Hereditary in theFamily of Angelm Flavim Comnenus. Among the reft oftheir Prerogatives, the Mailers are Commenfales Pontifi-cum, i. e. may fit at the Table with the Pope, who de-fends them as Benefaftors to the Church, and Foun-ders of the l.ateran Cathedral at Rome. As Subjects tono Prince, they have Power of coyning Money : Theygive Titles of Counts and Princes to their own Frater-nity, and take upon them the reftoring to Honours, oflegitimating Bajlards, making Do&ors, Poets f.aureats andPublicly Notaries. This Order is under the Protection of

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