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The History Of the most Noble Order of the Garter : Wherein is set forth An Account of the Town Castle, Chapel, and College of Windsor; with their several Officers ; The Foundation of the Order by King Edward III. ; With the Statutes, and Annals at large, as they have been altered and amended ; An Account of the Habits, Ensigns and Officers of the Order ... To which is prefix'd, A Discourse of Knighthood in General, and the several Orders extant in Europe
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mask hanging down to the Ground, furr’d with Er-min, having its Cope embroider’d with Gold, and theBorder of the Robe interwoven with Efcallops ofCold ; the Chaperon or Hood, with its long Tippet, wasmade of Crimfon Velvet ; but afterwards King Henry II.order’d this Mantle to be Cloth of Silver, embroider’dwith Three Crefcents of Silver, interwoven with Tro-phies, Quivers and Ttirkjfi Bows, fcmwd and canton'dwith Tongues and Flames of Fire ; the Chaperons ofCrimfonVelvet fhouldhave the lame Embroidery. TheirGrand Feftival was to be celebrated on Michaelmas-day,at the Church of Mount Michael in Normandy ; but afterwards transferr’d to Bois de Vincennes near Paris. There isan Herald of Arms to attend this Order, called MonfimrSt. Michael. Upon the inftituting The Order of the Ho’yGhofi, not only Care was taken to preferve this of St.Michael, and to rectify it, but the Knights had the Pri-vilege allow’d them, that if they thought fit they weremade capable of receiving that of The Holy Ghojl, whichno Stranger or Native could be enroll’d in that hadtaken upon him any other Order. The Collar of St.Michael may be worp with that of The Holy Ghofi, andit is now frequently us’d. The Evening before any re-ceive The Order of the Holy Ghofi, he is admitted into. TheOrder of St, Michael.

41. 7 ’he Order of the Elephant in Denmark. ■

King Chrifiian I. being at Pome upon a religious Ac-count, Pope Sixtus IV. among other Honours, invertedhim with this Order, in Memory of the Paffion of ourSaviour; and withal ordain’d the Supreme or Chief inhis Succeffors, Kings of Denmark.

This King founded the magnificent Chapel of theThree Kings in the Cathedral Church of Pofchilt, (FourLeagues from Copenhagen ) where the Knights were toaflemble uppn the Death of any of their Fraternity. Headmitted thereunto divers Kings, Princes and Noble-men. Its chief Enfign was the Figure of an Elephant,on whole fide ( within a Rundle ) was a Crown ofThorns, with Three Nails all bloody, in Memory ofthe Paffion. The Knights were oblig’d to A£ts of Piety,

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