NAME.

In the Founder’s Statutes it is called !Mantclhun , andin Hen. V. Manteau, both which we render Mantle. Butthe Exemplar of the Founder’s Statutes entred in theblack Book, and the Statutes of King Henry VIII. calljt Trabea, which Rojtnus reckons among the differentKinds of Mantles or Gowns. And in 10 Art. of King Hen.Vlllth’s Statutes, it is applied both to the Mantle andSurcoat 5 fometime it is Ailed Cblamyda 5 fometimeStolaj but in other Places more pertinently, Pallium and

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MATERIALS.

That Mantle prepared for the Founder againfi thefirft FeaA of this Order,appears to be fine Woollen Cloth,and it is not improbable this Material was chofen, ratherthan any other richer, to the Intent the Founder mightgive the Preference to our native Commodity, a'tho’there’s permitted in the Statutes of Infiitution a permit-. fion for the Proxies of Foreign Princes to bring overtiolitta w jththem Mantles of Silk and Velvet when they camet0 receive poffeffion of their Principal Stalls, either be-caufe other Countries were better Aored with fucha If* 1 ! Commodities than our Enylifh Cloth, or that it mightbe more agreeable to represent the State and Grandeur •: is ike of Foreign Princes, as accounting Silk or Velvet theistnoKi nobler Reprefentation.

itcoKK What Duration the wearing Cloth had, is not di-aller ®re9:ly fet down, but the firfi time we difeover theirnthe b Mantles to be of Velvet, is about the beginning of theReign of King Hen. VI. which Sort of Silk hath thenceremained until this Day. About this Period, ’tisob-3lhtl4i*ferved, that the Mantles ofForeign Princes were madehere of Velvet, for fo was that tranfmitted to the Kingy tb’ °f Portugal, defied Anno 1346. Concerning the Man-Kfltiltbdes of the Knights-Companions, there is no doubt"ichut they were of the fame Materials with thofe madeat firfi of fine Woollen Cloth,

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