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Jsyn’d Two and Two, Point to Point, plac'd round ^a Circle.

22. ‘the Order of the Knot in Naples.

When Lewis, King of Hungary, warr’d againft Joan,Queen of Naples 5 not fo much to difpoffefs her of theKingdom, as to revenge his Brother Andrew’s Death,whom this Joan, his Wife, had Strangled 1351. On thea 6th of May, the Queen and Lewis Prirfce of Tarantuni,being crown’d King and Queen of that Realm on thefame Day, in Commemoration of fo pacifick an Union,and to tear up all their Enmities, the Prince inttitutedthis Order $ into which enter’d, at that Time, Three-fcore and Ten Lords. Their Habit was White, andtheir Enfign a Knot ( the Emblem of Love and Friend-ship) intermixt with Gold. This Order expir’d in aShort Time.

33. Knights of the Annunciade in Savoy;

Ante VI. Earl of Savoy, instituted this Order, underthe Title of The Collar 1362. in Honour of the FifteenDivine Myfteries of the Rofary. Favin, on a miftakenGround, calls it The Order of the Snares of Love, in re-gard its Founder had receiv’d of his Lady, a Braceletmade of the Treffes of her Hair, plaited in Love-knots,and that the four Letters, afterwards interlac’d by theFounder, Should fignifie Frappes, Entres, Rompes, Tout.It is confpicuous enough at the firft Ereflion it wascall’d of The Collar, and fo remain’d till Charles III, orLe Bon Duke of Savoy, bellow’d on it the Title of TheAnnunciation, from the Picture of the Annunciationwhich he annex’d to The Collar, 15x8. The Founder ap-pointed the Number of his Knights to be Fifteen,among whom Sir Richard Mufard, an Englishman, is re-corded 1434. and 1568. their Number was encreas’d toTwenty, that being Solely lodg’d intheBreaft of theirSovereign. Riene Caftle, in Buger, was their principalSeat 3 they had a Chartreufe to entertain Fifteen Prieftsto celebrate Fifteen Malles to the Honour of the FifteenJoys of the bleffed Virgin, and to the Soul’s Health of

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