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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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thofe of his See) within the Garter, and the reft only "to wear the Badges of their Offices, furrounded withthe fame to exprefs their peculiar Relation.

Besides the Manner of bearing Arms, within the Gar-ter of this Order, the Garter either in whole orpart.hathbeen by Way of Armory,hut without the Motto; as in theSeal belonging to the Office of Garter King of Arms,where tlieGarter(enclofing a Crown)is placed onaChief,between a Lyon of England and a Flower de Lys of France,And to inftance in Family, we find Argent Three Demy-Garters Azure, buckled and garni fled, Or, granted byKing Lien. VII. to his Servant Peter Nerhorne, and fable aGarter, Or, between Three Buckles of the Second, to beborn by Buckjand or Bowland m Com. Northampton.

§. 2. The fecond Enfign of the Order is the Mantle,which is the Chief of thofe Veftments which the Sove-reign and Knights-Companions make ufe of upon allfolemn Occafions relating to the Order. That this -Pattern was derived to us from the ancient Greeks and <Romans, is not at all to be difputed, fince it fo little va-'!ties in Fafhion from their Pallium or Toga } for the Grdclan Pallium was a fort of long Cloak, which onlywanted a Collar or Cape, and the Roman Toga as pro-per to them,as the Pallium to the Grecians, and theCuftoma» Antique as Romulus himfelf; for he is recited byPlutarch to have worn it. The Pallium is more fullydefcribed to be a kind of upper Robe that covered thewhole Body, made faft on the right Shoulder with aFibula or Clafp. It wasufually worn over the Tunicaor fhort Coat, whence the Proverb Tunica Pallio propior,and is more particularly obferved to have been a Gar-ment fafhioned without Sleeves, that reached down tothe Ancles.

In describing this upper Robe, called the Mantle,(the Sovereigns being diftinguifhed from the Knights-Companions, only by a long Train) we (hall firft ftdown its various Appellations it is mentioned by in theRecords of the Order j Secondly, the Materials where-of it confifts ; Thirdly, the Colour ; Fourthly, theQuantity ; and laft of all the Ornamental Trimmings)that nothing be omitted tofatisfy any curious Enquirer.

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