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Alms-Deeds, and certain Ceremonies, efpecially upopthole Days on which they wore the Enfigns. KingJohn valu’d it fo highly, that he wore them on everyfolemn Feftival. He advanc’d it 'to that Pitch of Gran-deur, that our King Henry VIII. and James V. King ofScotland, accepted it.

Hertholm, a learned Dane, in a particular Treatife ofthis Elephantine Order, fays, The Badge was meerly Mi-litary, anciently given as a Memorial and Incitement tothe Danijh Princes, who took upon them the Defenceof Chriftianity againft the Moors and Africans.

Heretofore the Knights wore a Collar of Gold com-pos’d of caftellated Elephants and Crofles, fomethinglike the CroJJes ancrees (Menenim calls them Spurs) atwhich hung the Piflure of the Virgin Mary to the Mid-dle, holding Chrift in her Arms, and furrounded witha Glory of Sun-beams. But that long fince laid afide,they now wear only a Blue Ribbon, at which hangs anElephant enamell’d White, adorn’d with Five large Dia-monds fet in the Middle. Thefe Elephants, in theReign of King Chrijlian IV. had in the fame Place, with-in a Circle, the Letter C, and in the Center of it theFigure 4, denoting Chriflianus Quartus.

This Honour is ufually conferr'd on the Days ofthe King’s Coronation. Fredericflll. brought into ufe,in Imitation of The Garter, an embroider’d Glory of Sil-ver Purple wrought upon the left Side of their Cloakor Veil, on which was embroider’d Two Crowns with-in a Rundle, bearing this Motto, D cm providebit. Thelate King, his Son, chang’d the Motto to, Pietate crJujhtia 5 but all the Knights created by his Father areoblig’d to continue the former Motto.

42. The Order of the Burgundian Crofs at Tunis^

Was inftituted on St. Mary Magdalen's Day, 1535. byCharles V. Emperor of Germany and King of Spain, afterhe had reflor’d Mulleajjes, King of Tttnu, to his King-dom, to reward thofe Commanders who had behav’dthemfelves well in the Viflory. It was the Day whereinhe made his pompous Entry into Tunis, when clad inthe Coat he ulually wore in Battle,whereon Was embroi-der’d