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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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dught to be united in all Chances and Various Tunisof Fortune 5 Co-partners both in Peace and War, afft-ftant to one another in all ferious and dangerous Ex-ploits $ and thro’ the whole Gourfe of their Lives tofhew Fidelity and Friendlinefs one towards another.There are other Reafons affign’d, much to the fameEffect, That the Order was inftituted to fortife the Comfdence of the King, the Kingdom and Martial Vert tie j.thatis to lay, to strengthen the Faith of the SubjeBs towardsthem , and for their greater Security, and becaufe the Gartercarries -with it a Bond or Tye of Fellowjhip, and is a Symbolof Amity between Princes, being Companions of the JamOrder.

In the laft Place, if we look upon the Statutes of itsInftitution, we fhall find the Injunctions wholly Mili-tary, and fo are the Words of Admonition pronounc’dat the putting on the Enfigns of the Order : And theGround of the Inftitution (in the Preamble to KingHenry VIII’s Exemplar ) is faid to be for the Honour of Godand Exaltat ion of the Catholicity Faith, joyn'd both with Pietyand Charity , in ejlablijhmg a College of religious Men to prayfor the Profperity of the Sovereign of the Order and the Knights-Companions, and to perform other holy Duties 5 as alfo or-daining a Maintenance for a Company of Alms-Knights, whohave not otherwife wherewith to fupport themfelves ; but notone Word relating to the Engagement on behalf of thefeminine Sex.

And whereas King Edw. III. had laid Claim by hisTitle to the Kingdom of France, and in Right thereofallum’d its Arms, he from the Colour of them, ’tisfaid,caus’d the Garter to be made Blue, and the Circum-Icription Gold : And it may, without draining, be in*ferr’d from the Motto, Horn foit qui mal y penfe, thathe retorted Shame and Defiance upon him that Ihoulddare to think amifs of fo juft an Enterprize, as hehad undertaken for recovering of his lawful Right tothat Crown; and that the Magnanimity and Braveryof thole Knights, whom he had eleCIed into this Or-der, was fuch as would impower and enable them tomaintain the Quarrel againft all who thought ill of it.Confonant to this is the Conjecture of Harpsfeld, thatthis Apophthegm was defign’d to put the Knights-Com-

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