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Arthur’s 5 or at leaft fet up in the room of one moreancient, which was deftroy’d in the rebellious Timesof Forty One, with other Reliques there. The Arti-cles of their Profeffion (Number 12) are fet down bySir William Segar. We find no authentick Proof whatBadge they bore, notwithftanding the Report thatKing Arthur had a Shield nam’d Pridwin , wherein theVirgin Mary was depicted. His Sword and Lance hadalfo their Names, one being call’d Calibttrne, the otherll 'lj ' Iroue or Rene. It’s not remember’d that this Order fur-viv’d the Founder, but rather that it expir’d withhim, moft of thele Knights perifhing with him at thetyi Battle of Kamblan, now Came/sford, in Cornwall, wheretho’ he kill’d his Enemy Mordrcd, yet he dy d A. D. 542.

It may be noted, that the like Round Table grew in10 Eftimation fhortly after the Norman Conquefl, being pcr-

mitted at Haflelades, Tilts and Turnaments, temp. Steph.and R. L And Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, kept theCelebration of the Round Table (confiding of Oneby Hundred Knights, and as many Ladies) with TiltingDM at Kemlu'orth- Caftle, in Com ’ Worcefi' 7 Ed. I. And King

Edward III. defigning to reftore it, held a Juft at Wmd~$«V for in the 18th Year of his Reign; and in the 19th)«• ordain’d it annually to be kept there at Whitfontide.din But it was thought fit upon divers Accounts to forbidchti thefe Aflemblies, and in particular 1 6 H. III. at Shreu-f-

Mi- hitry, when the King went to meet Liewdim Prince of

lint Wales, and in 5 6 H. III. and at many other times,of

’oat 2. Knights of the Oak in Navarrej

ip;

;’ji Were inftituted by Garcia Ximenes of the Blood oflit! the Goths, who had formerly retir’d from the World to

ran- a folitary Life, but relinquifh’d it to command an Ar-

is of my rais’d by the Navarrois, to deliver themfelves from

Vi- the Oppreffion of the Moors. As he Was marching to

f$l encounter them, A. D. 722. there appear’d to him

jjli from the Top of an Oak the Sign of the Crofs, ador’d

hy an infinite Number of Angels, On giving Battle to•j'ijK the Infidels he gain’d a remarkable Victory, and thePeople elefted him their King ; and he in thankfulnefsto God ereited this Order, invefting his Nobles there-in K a with,