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or St. Andrew's Crofs enfil’d in Centre, with a Crowncompos’d of Flower de Luces Or. For the ordinary and 1

common Enfign, the Knights us’d a Green Ribbon, |

whereat hung a Thiflle of Gold, crown’d with an Im- ?

perial Crown, within a Circle of Gold, containing the *

laft nam’d Epigraph 5 and now of late they have few’d f

to their left Bread an Irradiation (like that of TheKnights of the Garter ) over a Saltire Silver, the Irradia-tion charg’d with a Blew Roundle of St. Andrew's Crofs,

Their Num her confided of Thirteen, in Allufion to ourbleiled Saviour and the Twelve Apoftles. 1

7. Knights of our Lady of the Star,

Owe their Original to Robert the Devout of France,

A. D. ioz2. to manifeft his ftriil Devotion to the blef-fed Virgin. They were in Number Thirty, inclufive 1

of the Chief. Their Seat was in the noble and anci- S

ent Houfe of St. Owen, call’d de Ch'tchey , near St. Denys «

in France. This Order was of no long continuance, S

for being much fully’d and difgrac’d ( during the Civil i

and Foreign Wars) by the Imitation of Perfons that ;

had neither Birth nor Merit to recommend them, KingCharles VII. took Occafion to efface it A. D. 1455. bydelivering up, in a Chapter, the Enfign that he woreto the Chevalier du Guet , Captain of the Night-watch 1

in Paris, the Lords and Princes throwing it off after it l

had receiv’d that Mark of Infamy ; tho’ fome alledge i

it declin’d upon the Erection of The Order of St. Michael, ]

as the Star fupplanted that of the Gennet.

8. "The Order of the Lilly in Navarre, or of St. Maryof the Lilly,

Was founded A. D. 1048. by Garcim VI. King ofNavarre, in Honour of the bleffed Virgin Mary, afterhis Recovery from a languifhing Sickne'fs. Others re-late, that prevailing againfl the Moors, he made aFeafl:in Honour of the blefled Virgin, at which he inftitutedthis Order, eleiling his Brothers and Sons among thefirfl Knights. It was efteem’d the moft Illuftrious ofall Spain, and confided of Thirty Eight Knights, ex-.

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