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The Motto of King Charles II. was fet with Dia-monds upon Blue Velvet, and the Borders wroughtwith fine Gold Wire ; the Diamonds which framedthe Letters of the Motto, were Rofe Diamonds, mud,of a Size or Proportion; but thofe which framed theStops,Table-Diamonds ; the Total which fet each Let-ter, compos’d the Stops, Ilot Holes, and adorn’d theBuckle 3 the Table was Two Hundred and Fifty; theHinge of the Buckle was pure Gold, and on it the So.vereign’s Pi&ure to the Breaft, curioufly cut in Flat-ftitch, crown’d with a Laurel and the military Garbof the firft: Roman Emperors 5 the Table or Pendantwas Gold, and on the Dack-fide thereof engrav’d St.George on Horfe-back encountring the Dragon.

This noble Enfign, the Garter, was at the Ere&ionof the Order appointed to be wore on the left Leg, alittle beneath the Knee, which Ufage ftill prelides:And the placing it thus, on the Sepulchral Portraituresof Knights-Companions, was an early Cuftom 5 for onthe Alabafter Monument of Sir William Fitz-ivarin, whowas interr’d in the North-fide of the Chancel at Wan-tage in Com. Berks , 3 5 Edw. III. he lies there with hisSurcoat of Arms upon his Breaft, and the Reprefenta-tion of a Garter (but without Motto) carv’d upon hisleft Leg. In the fame Pofture lies Sir Richard Pm-bridge, eleted a Knight-Companion, temp. Edw. 111.and is portrai&ed on his Monument in the South-fideof the Cathedral of Hereford, below the Pulpit, and cn-compafs’d with a Rail of Iron-Spikes.

The next Monument whereon the Garter was de-pifted, was that ere£led for Sir .Swob Burley, (beheadedA.T). 1388.) and rear’d in the North-Wall near theChoir of St. Paul’s, London. Thence-forward the Pra-ctice became more frequent, and then the Motto beganto be cut thereon ; inlomuch that it is now the con-ftant and juft Practice to do it, whenfoever the Knights-Companions are exhibited in Effigies.

And altho’ this Enfign was firft defign’d in Orna-ment to the left Leg, yet it was not confin’d fo folelythereto, but was anciently us’d to incircle the Efcut-cheon of St. George’s Arms, worn by the Sovereign andKnights-Companions on their Mantles, who within a

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