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feount Wells, (who dy’d 14 Hen. VII. ) were furrou m ] e Jwith the Garter, as others bearing his Lady’s Arms. °

At the Interment of Thomas Duke of Norfolk in T hn ,ford-Abbey, (who dy’d 16 Hen.Ylll.) there was p ro 'vided a Shield of his Arms within a Garter, and aCoronet affix’d over it; a Target alfo of the Arms ofGeorge, Earl of Shrewsbury, within a Garter, was bomathisFunural, Anno 3 3 Hen. VIII.

It was the Cuftom, (begun about the Reign ofHen. VII.) when the Obfequies of any Foreign Princewere celebrated in England, to paint an Efcutcheon offuch Prince’s Arms within the Collar of the Order,whereof he was Sovereign or a Fellow-Companion;as thofe of the French King, Charles VIII. celebrated atSt. Paul’s, London, had Efcutcheons of the Arms ofFrance, within the Collar of the Order of St. Midmi Jat each End of the Hearfe ; and when the Obfequiesof John King of Portugal were folemniz’d at St. Pauli,there was, among others, one large Efcutcheon of hisArms within the Collar of the Golden Fleece. The Fu-neral Rites of the Emperor Charles V. being perform’di nWefiminfler-Abbey, 22 and 29 Dec. 1558. there wereTen great Efcutcheons compafs’d with Garters, to /hewhe was a Fellow of this Order : And upon the fameAccount, where Princes were Sovereigns of one, andCompanions of another Order, their Hearfes werehung with Efcutcheons of their Arms, furrounded withthe Collars or principal Badges of both thofe Orders;as at the Interment of Francis I. the French King, cele-brated at St. Paul’s, London, 1 Edw. VI. the Efcutcheonswere the Arms of France, encompafs’d within the Gar-ter of St. George, and Collar of St. Michael. At the Ob-fequies of Hen. II. of France, Anno 1 Eliz. at St. Putihalfo, there were fome Efcutcheons of his Arms, incir-cled both with the Garter and Collar of the GotoFleece, having been a Knight-Companion of both thefeOrders : Under the Joy Its was a Majefty Efcutcheon ofBlack TafFaty of this King’s Arms, within a Gartercrown’d with an Imperial Crown, and in feveral Placesof the Hearfe were fatten’d other Efcutcheons of hisArms within this principal Enfign of the Garter.

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