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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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call’d the Ordo Divi SanU't Georgii , The Order of St.George.

It is remarkable, that Du Chef nr, a noted French Hi-ftorian, acknowledges it was by the fpecial Invocationof St. George that King Edward III. gain’d the Battle ofCreffy, which afterwards bringing to his Remembrance,He founded, fays he, a Chapel -within the Caftle of Wind-for. But if we may afcend a ftep higher, and givecredit to Harding, it’s recorded King Arthur paid St.George particular Honours, for he advanc’d his Picturein one of his Banners, which was about Two HundredYears after his Martyrdom, and very early for a Coun-try fo remote from Cappadocia to have him in Reverenceand Efteem.

Lafily, The Founder added a fourth Patron, wholeName himfelf bore, viz. St. Edward the Confeffor, hisPredecellbr, King of England ; and we find he waswont to be invocated by this Founder, as well as St.George, in any great Difficulties and Streights. Wal-fingham gives an Inftance at the Skirmifh of Calais, A. D.1349. when King Edward, in great Anger and Grief,drew out his Sword, and moft paffionately cry’d out,Ha St. Edward, Ha St. George 3 which his Soldiershearing, ran prefently to him, and rufhing violentlyupon the Enemy, put many of them to the Sword.Thefe Four Patrons we find recorded together in thePreamble of the Foundation of Wind for College byKing Edward III. tho’ in the Preamble to his Statutesof the Order, and to King Henry V’s Statutes, St. Edwardthe Confeffor is omitted 5 neverthelefs he is enumeratedwith the reft in the Preamble to King Henry VUI’s.

§ 5. As to the Honour and Reputation of this NobleOrder, either in Comparifon with others, or in Refe-rence to it felfj it challenges the Precedency of Anti-quity, before the eldeft Rank of Honour of that Kindany where eftablilh’d.

Secondly, The Statutes of the Foundation were fo ex-quifitely and judicioufly devifed and compared, uponfuch folid Foundations of Honour and Noblenefs, thatthey afterwards became a Precedent to other Orders jand gave the Plan to thofeTwo of The Golden Fleece and

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