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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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pcfyn quijpttx tr caligas, wrought over likewife withGarters. Had the Roll been divided into Years, orhad diftinguilhing Marks of Time upon it, we mighthave been guided with more Certainty as to the trueYear of the Inftitution. However, we may thenceconclude it was not founded in the 18th of Edw. III.becaufe that the Sovereign’s Robes were not madeuntil the 22.d Year of his Reign at fooneft; perhapsnot till the Beginning of the a 3d. But to put theMatter beyond difpute, the Founder’s Statutes fix theTime of Inftitution to his a 3d Year 3 fo do the Sta-tutes of King Henry V. and the Preface to the Blue)\ Rook. ,Leland, Mills and Dr. Heylin. To conclude, when hehad fix’d upon the Day and Place for celebrating thefirft grand Feaft of this Order, he fent his Heralds intoGermany, France, Scotland, Burgundy, Hainault, Flandersand Brabant, to invite all Knights and Efquires, (withAflurance of Safe-ConduCl and Liberty for FifteenDays, both before and after the grand Solemnity) toIhew their military Prowefs and other publick Exer-cifes there to be perform’d, proper to the Place andOccafion; agreeable to which Invitation, fundryKnights and Gallant Men came over to fignalize theirValour; and what made the Solemnity more glorious,King Edward's Queen was there prefent, attended withThree Hundred of the faireft Ladies, in all imaginableSplendor and Gaity.

54. The Patrons of the Order were feveral, underwhofe Protection (according to the Cuftom of the Age)King Edw. III. put himfelf and all the Knights-Compa -nions, that the Affairs of the Order might be defended,preferved and govern’d.

The firjl and chiefeft which he elefled, was theHoly Trinity, which in a more efpecial Manner was in-vocated to the Aid and Affiftance of this Order.

Secondly, King Edward III. intitled peculiarly thebhjjed Virgin Mary, accounted then the general Media-trix and ProteCtrefs of all Men ; unto whom King Ed-ward IV. was fo ftriClly devoted, that he thought iomeadditional Ceremonies requifite to her farther Honour,and thereupon ordain’d, that on her Five Solemnities

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