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Velvet lin’d with Taffaty ; but the Figure hath feveral

li^' Times varied j for Temp. Henry VIII. it was flat, in*(fy Queen Elizabeth's Reign it was a little raifed in theli W Head 5 but in King James's Time they were much more

Plumes of White Feathers, and Spriggs, and bound a-‘■‘V: bout with a Band fet thick with Diamonds 5 fo was

tbe Cap for the Inftallation of King Charles II. andfometimes the Brims have been tack’d up with a large%>,■; a nd coftly Jewel.

/ofajj- This Cufiom of wearing Caps and Feathers at theWait; Grand Solemnities of the Order, had, for fome Time,?s nai about the Beginning of King James I. Reign, beenfieji omitted, and thereupon, in a Chapter held the 1 3th of$tk April-, Anno 10. Jac. I. this commendable Culiom wasms 1. re- eftablifh’d.

upoflrf To thefe may be added the Crofs of the Order en-t y c compafs’d with a Garter, which by the Sovereign wasp ln [ sl ordain’d the 27th of April, 2 Car. I. to be worn uponthe Left Side of the Cloaks, Coats, and riding Caffocksof the Sovereigns and Knights-Companions, of thePrelate and Chancellor at all Times, when they were^... not adorn’d with their Robes, and in all Places andAflemblies (but not embelli/h’d with Pearls and Stones)

.that the wearing thereof might be a fufficient Indicationto the World, of that Height of Honour they arriv’d toi ’ M f - r from the faid moft Noble Order, inftituted for Perfons. ,5 |? | of the greateft Merit and Worth.

j’. And it was not long after e’er the Glory or Star, ase “ 3i a it was ufually call’d, having certain Beams of Silver,that fhot out in Form of a Crofs, was introduc’d andannex’d to it, in Imitation (as thought) of the French ,who after the fame manner wore the chief Enfign ofthe Order of the Holy Ghojl , being the Reprefentation, of a Dove irradiated with fuch like Beams.

‘ And whereas fome Painters affirm the Symbol of theiefltlk Holy Gholl to be thus adorn’d congruous enough, yet30m cenfure it improper for a Garter, let them confider thatjol ® King EJw. IV. erefted his White Rofe with the likeJit® Glory, whereof both the Stone Work and Wood Workof St. George's Chapel in Windfor , manifeftly illuftrate,

high-crown’d. This Cap hath been ufually adorn’d with

whofe Antiquity makes a Precedent for it long before

the