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trafled out of the ancienteft Blood of Navarre, Bifayand Old Cafiile. The Kings of Navarre were their Chief.They promis’d, at their Inftitution, to expofe theirLives and Fortunes in Defence of the Chriftian Faith,the Confervation of the Crown, and Expulfion of the'Mows.

9. The Order of the Sword in Cyprus,

Was erefted 1195. by Guy of Lufgnan , King of Je-rufalem and Cyprus, after he had purchas’d that lile ofour King Richard I. in Commemoration of fo fortunatea Plantation of 15000 Perfons whom he brought thi-ther. Some queftion the Truth of this 3 however allaflent, its Founder was one of the Lufgnan Family. TheCollar was compos’d of round Cordons of white Silk,woven into Love-Knots, interlac’d with the LettersS and R. Beneath this Collar hung an Oval of Gold,whereon was perfigur’d a Sword, the Blade enamell’dSilver, the Hilt Gold, and about the Oval this Motto,Securitas Regni. Micheli fays, Pro Fide Servanda, and Gotho-s, pro integritate tttenda. Their Feftivity was Afcen-Day, whereon the Founder gave it ( in the Churchof St. Sophia, the Cathedral of Nicofa in Cyprus ) tohis Brother Amaury , and to Three Hundred Baronseftablifh’d in that his new Kingdom. There wereEight Kings of Cyprus of the Lufgnan Line, Great Ma-ilers 5 but when this IfLe fell into the Hands of theTurks, this Inftitution ceas’d.

"Was inftituted A. D. 1213. by the Emperor Frede-rick^ II. in Favour of the Abbot of St. Gall in Swaben,

With Black, in Honour of St. Urfus of the Theban Le-gion, who was martyr’d before the Temple of the Sunat Soleurre in Switzerland. It was alfo call’d T he Order ofSt. Gall, from the Name of the Patron (a Scotch Gen-tleman, andtheApoftle of Swaben) of the Place where

10. The Bear in Switzerland,

who had affifted him in gaining the Empire. ThefeKnights wore a Collar of Gold, at the End whereofhung a Bear Gold, mounted on an Hillock enamell’d

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