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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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the Splendidnefs of the Feftivity, it was too bufy jTime to fufter much Confultation tending thereunto •or at lead to mould and model a Delign fo compleatand fubftantial, as it appears to have been even at firft.If we joyn Fabian, he is plain, that tho’ the King d e -fign’d the Inftitution at the End of the Feftival,(%hich he places between Candlemas and Lent , in the19th, and not 18th Year of that King ) Yet -was it notthen, faith he, but afterwards ejlablijh'd by him. Never-thelefs, Mr. Seiden elfewhere obferves, it had its Ori-ginal in the 14th Year of the faid King. And our in-duftrious Stow (with whom Lily, Speed, and Yegro-agree)tells us, That the firjl Feajl of the Order was celebratedA. D. 1350. which exactly agrees to the 24th of Ed.ward III. But Polydore Virgil places it after the 25 th ofEdward III. We muft therefore have recourfe to formother Proofs for elucidating this Point, fince this Chro-nological JEra of the true Time of its Inftitution hathwonderfully flipp’d the Pens of all Writers.

Admitting then that the eredling this Order wasfirft thought of by King Edward, at forae of tholegrand Aflembties of The Round Table, held after theFrench King had fet up the like ; yet was it not ma-ture, or brought to any Perfeflion, till after his gloriousVictories and Triumphs over the French and Scots inthe Battles of Creffy and Nevil’s Crofs, ( in the laft ofwhich the Scotch King, David, was taken Prifoner) anduntil King Edward had Calais furrendred to him, as willappear very confpicuous.

Among the Rolls of the Great Wardrobe, is onecontaining the Account of all the King’s Liveries, fromMichaelmas Anno 21, to the 31 ft of Jan. 2 3 Edw. III.In the fame are divers Things mention’d to be adorn’dWith Garters, which were provided againft the firftgrand Fcaft of St. G orge : and among the reft, theRoyal Robes, viz. his Mantle, Surcoat and Hood 5lik'ewife a B^d of BlueTtffity was b -deck’d with Gar-ters, Containing the Motto, Honi fait out mat y penft.There were made for the Sovereign Three Harnefles,whereof Two were of White Velvet, wrought overwith Garters Ye blu ev Aiafp -i per totum combedme'm cumll r oodloufes 3 and the Third de Velvttto Ynde cant. Lap-

 
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