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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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Statutes. Yet the Injunction of i Ed. VI. reduced themto Ten j but Queen Elizabeth eftablilh’d the formerNumber, and gave in Augmentation among them all of3 /. xi j. 8 d. They are now reduced to Eight, andtheir prelent Exhibition is 12 s. per Month.

§. 5. The Alms Knights we Ihall treat of in a three-fold Eftate: 1. Under the Foundation 3 2. When difi-jointed thence by A£l of Parliament 3 and,. 3. As efta-blilhed anew by Queen Elizabeth.

1. Then, King Edward III. out of the great Regardhe had to military Honour, and ldiofe who had bravelybehav’d themfelves in his Wars, yet after chanced tofall in dgcay, made a Provision for their Relief and com-fortable Subfiftence in old Age, by providing for themin this his Foundation, and making a Coalition in onejoint Bo<dy with the Cuftos and Canons 5 thefe he call’dMilites Pfkperes,and we Poor orAlms-Knights. The HatedNumber at firft were Twenty Four, equal to the Cuftosand Canons at the firft Erection. But fhortly after, up-on his inftituting the Order of the Garter, Two morewere added (as there was to the firft Canons) to makethe compleatNumber of the Knights-Companions of thatOrder, which were Twenty Six, as we find ftated atthe Ordination of the College by the Bifhop of Win-cbefier, the Pope’s Delegate.

The Intention of the Founder was for thofe thatwere real Objects of Charity, as he deferibes them, viz.poor Knights, infirm in Body, indigent and decay’d, oras the Statutes of the Garter qualifies them, fuch asthro’ adverfe Turns of Fortune were reduced to thatExtremity that they had not wherewithal to fuftainthemfelves, to live fo genteelly as was fuitable for aMilitary Condition, which for greater Caution was rei -terated in the Statutes of King Hen. V. King Hen. VIII.and in the Orders of Queen Elizabeth 5 for it was ex-prefs’d, in cafe any Eftate of 20 /. per Annum devolvedon them, fuch Knights were to be difeharged the Col-lege, and they were to proceed to a new Election.

At the firft each Knight-Companion of the Orderprefented his Alms-Knight, but ever after their Electionwas to be at the Difpofal of the Sovereign. Their Ha-bit

 
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