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to enrich the Collar, but the George only; and under *Penalty not to fell,pawn or alienate it upon any Neceffitywhatfoever, are wholly the fame as was afterwards en-joyn’d by King Henry VIII. So that he did but onlyannex to his Body of Statutes a Decree, which for thegreateft part had been put in pradbfe before. In the11th Hen. VIII. upon Interpretation of the EleventhArticle of the Statutes, the Collar is there enumeratedas part of the entire Robes that a Knight-Companion isoblig’d to wear, for a more convincing Proof, Thatthe Collar of Garters was ufed before King Henry VIll’sReign, the Monument of Sir Giles Daubeny plainly De-lineates (who departed iz Henry VII.) in Pt'ejlmmfier-Ahhey, where his Portraiture in the Robes of the Or-der is adorned with fuch a Collar as King Henry VIII’sStatutes do afterwards deferibe.

As the Garter fent to Guftavus Adolphus King of S-vsein,fo the great George (pendant at his Collar weighingSeven Ounces) was fet with large and refplendent Dia-monds, to the Number of Eighty-Four.

In what Regard this Noble Enfign of Honour theCollar, hath been w’ith the Sovereigns and Knights-Companions, not only of the Order of the Garter , butother Military Orders, may be collected from thePiturcs of fome of them, as well as from their Seals,Coins, and Medals, for in thefe they have been pleafed'to exhibit their Effigies and Efcutcheons of Arms; andomitting Foreign Examples, the Collars, both of theGarter and Thifil , were exprels’d in the Coronation Me-dal of King Charles I. in Scotland, 1653. tho’inthatofhis Coronation at Wefiminfier, and afterwards in that ofKing Charles II. 1661. the Collar of the Order of theGarter are only put o’/er their Royal Robes.

These Ornaments of the Collars, have been affix’dfomerimes encircling the Shields of their Arms; and ina Seal of Charles the Bold Duke of Burgundy, Sovereignof the Order of the Golden Fleece, plac’d to an Inftru-ment dated, 1470. it is worthy of Remark, thatCollar adorns the Neck of the Lyon of Flanders ; butthe Sovereigns of the Garter ufually encompafs'd theirArms, not within the Collar of the Order, but theRoyal Garter, that being its principal Enfign ;

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