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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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their private Accounts herein palling thro’ To many Con-tingenees, were of no great Durability. But theirSurcoats were of the Sovereigns Donation, and confc-quently the Particulars of them remain on Record inthe Rolls and Accounts of the great Wardrobe.

The Colour of thefe Mantles is appointed by theStatutes to be Blue, and of this Colour was the Found-by which, as by the Ground-work of the Royal

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Garter, it is not improbable he alluded to the Colourof the Field in the French Arms, which a few Years be-fore he began to Quarter with thofe of England. Butthe Colour of theSurcoat was changed every Year, aswill appear by and by. Ol the fame Colour were theVelvet Mantles, made temp. Hen. VI. who tho’ he al-tered the Stuff, did not vary the Dye. It is apparent,that the blue Colour was retained to King Edit-. IVth’sReign, for when this Sovereign tranfmitted the Habitand Enfigns of the Order to Julian de Medicis ,

Mantle was of blue Velvet.

But in King Hen. VlUth’s Statutes there’s no menti-on at all of the Colour of this upper Robe, fave only ofthe Mantle, which the Proxy of a Foreign Prince wasenjoined to bring with him when he came to alfumetheStall of his Principal; which, tho’ it does not come di-redlly up to thePoint,yet it is to be obferved to be ofblue ^ t0 fJVelvet And it’s highly probable that the blue Colourremained {Fill to be uied ; for within a few Months afterthe compiling the laid Statutes, it’s plain, the Mantlefent to James King of Scotland, was ofblue Velvet, andin the ancient Form of Admonition and Signification ap-pointed to be fpoke at the Inveftiture of Foreign Princes,and then in Plea it is called the Mantle of celejiial Colom,Likewife the Mantle fent to Emanuel Duke of Suit o)',i and 2 Ph. and Mar. was of the fame Compofure.

In Queen Elizabeth’s Reign, upon what GroundHillory is lilent, the Colour of Foreign Prince’sMantles was changed from Blue to Purple, for ofthat Colour were the Mantles fent to the French Kings,Charles IX. Anno. 6 Eliz. and Hen. III. Ann. 27 Elk. S°alio to the Emperor Maximilian 9 Elizabeth,to Fredrick. 11 -King of Denmark., An. 24 Eliz. to Joh.Caf.mire CountPalatine of the Rhine, Anno 21 Eltz. to ChriRum IV.

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