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the Leg; but there’s no doubt but it was wrought withrich Embroidery, and the Motto rais’d with Gold,Pearl, and fundry Sorts of Silk, as may be guefs’dfrom the Garters anciently plac’d on the left fide of theKnights-Gompanions Mantles, and thofe other littleembroider’d Garters, wherewith their Surcoats andHoods were heretofore embellifh’d.

But of thofe wrought in the lall Age, we have moreparticular Satisfaction ; for we find the Garter fent toEmanuel Duke of Savoy, Anno i and a Philip and Mary,was fet with Letters of Goldfmith’s Work, the Buckleand Pendant of the fame, and on the Pendant a Ruby,and a Pearl hanging at the End. The Garter made forFrancis II. Anno 6 Elizabeth , was richly wrought withLetters of Gold, let off and garnilh’d with Stones,the Buckle and Pendant weighing Three Ounces andan half-quarter, was richly fet with Rubies and Dia-monds. The French King Henry IV. had a Garter ofPurple Velvet embroider’d with Letters of Gold, anddeck’d out with Diamonds and Rubies. And the Gar-ter of Chrijiian 1 V. King of Denmark^ was embroider’dwith Gold and Pearls: But that Garter lent to GujlavusAdolphus King of Sweden, outvied all others conferr’dby former Sovereigns, each Letter of the Motto beingcompos’d of ftaall Diamonds , and for every Stop, aDiamond within a Range of Diamonds, above ana be-low, onthefidesof the Garter, and befides other Dia-monds on the Buckle, and about the fame, to the Num-ber in all of 411.

The Garter which King Charles I. wore upon his Legat the Time of his Martyrdom, had the Letters of theMotto compos’d likewife of Diamonds, which amount-ed to the Number of 412. It came to the Hands ofCaptain Preplan (one of the Ufurper’s Captains) fromwhom the Truftees, for Sale of the King’s Goods, re-ceiv’d it, and fold it to Ire ton, fometimes Lord Mayor ofLondon, for 205 /. But after the Reftoration, the King’sAttorney-General proceeding upon an AClion of Troverand Converfon , VerdiCt was given for the King againfthim for 205 /. and xo l , coftsof Suits, in Trinity Term,1 6 Car. IJ,

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