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they acquired in the Wars, which was a refpite to them-felves, after almoft Two Hundred Years Charges, andMilitary Expence ■> indeed the Encouragement proved fogood a Bait, that they cleared their Provinces almoft ofall Turks and Schifmaticks that infefted them. TheirBadge was a plain Green Crofs , and their Habit Red.

32. OrdoDifciplinarum,

Was inftituted by the Bohemian Kings, or rather theJujirian , to be a Curb upon the Turks and Heretickj, atleaft to prefcribe the Confines of the Kingdom. TheCollar of the Order had a White Eagle. Thefe Knightsflourifhed in Germany , in the Reigns of Sigifmond andAlbert Emperors.

33. Orde de la Scania, in Caftile,

Was inftituted by John II. King of that-Realm, a-boutthe Year, 1420. to excite his Nobility to fight a-gainft the Moors , which produced fo good Effieft, thatin a fhort time the Moors were fhamefully overthrown.That King granted them Privileges, gave them theirStatutes and Rules ; but upon his Death the Splendorhereof was greatly eclips’d. Their Enfign was a Crofscompofed of the Scales of Fifties. They were obligedto defend Caftile againft the Moors , to dye in Defence ofthe Faith, and when the King went to War they march-ed before him. Their Enfign was a Crofs compofed ofthe Scales of Fifties, the Spanijh Scama bearing the fameSignification as the Latin Squama.

34. 'The Order of the Golden Fleece,

Had its Original from Philip II. Duke of Burgundy,Sirnam’d the Good, the xothof Jan. 1429. at his Mar-riage with Elizabeth , Daughter of Portugal , in the Cityof Bruges in Flanders, to perpetuate the Memory of hisgreat Revenues raifed by Wools with the Low-Countries.Some lay in Commemoration of Gideon, who withThreeHundred Men vanquiftied a numefousArmy oftheMidiamtes or of Jacob's Fleece, viz. the Party-coloured