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of St. George, the Knights wore to Vefpers, the Sove-reigns Livery or Surcoats, ufed by them the precedingYear, which after that Night they threw off, (for thenew Surcoats were worn on the Feaft-Day) 5 but theEnfigns and Ornaments of this Kind were difpofed ofto the Ufe of the Colledge.

The Hood and Cap comes in the next Place to heIpoken of, which Hood in King, Henry VIIl’s Statu-tes, and the Black Book of the Order is called Hu-merale j but in the Rolls of the Great Wardrobe, Capu-(ium. In the French it is Chaperon , a Word ufed in theStatute, Anno 1. Richard II. C. 7. and alfo retained inthe Old Englifi Copy of Henry VIII’s Statutes made ofhis Reign, and annexed to this Treatife. They wereanciently wore for Defence of the Head againft the In-clemencies of Weather, but of later Times Caps andHats have fupplied their place. How they fat upon theHead, may be obferved in the Portraitures of the firftFounders 5 as alfo with fome Variety of Fafhion in fuc-ceeding Ages .- Yet is not the Hood quite thrown by,fince ’tis Hill kept reclining upon the Back, alrnoft likea Pilgrim’s Hat.

This Hood was ordained, and is yet retained as partof the Habit of this moft Noble Order. And tho’neither it nor the Surcoat is mentioned in the Statutesof Inftitution, or in either its Exemplars, nor dothKing Henry V. lay any Strefs upon it, yet it is of equalAntiquity with the reft, as appears from the Rolls of thegreat Wardrobe,and Henry VIII’s Statutes have made re-markable Obfervation of it, for the Mantle, Surcoat,Hood,and Collar are called the Habit of the Order: Andin the Black Book, Anno 22. Henry VII. at the Inveftitureof Philip King of Caftile, the Mantle, Kirtle, Hoodand Collar are exprefly called Whole Habit.

It was heretofore, and now is generally made of thefame Materials as the Surcoat, and was anciently trim-med and fet off with a fmall Proportion of Garterslined with Cloth of a different Colour, and fuch aswould bell: ftrike the Sight 5 but now with Taffaty, asis the Lining of the Surcoat.

As to the Cap, which was inftituted to fiicceed theHood 5 it hath been, and yet is, fafhioned of black

Velvet,