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fometimes, having no Shield of Arms, the void Spacewithin the Garter, exhibits their Arms.

Observable is the Seal of Charles Count Palatine ofthe Rhine, wherein is a Shield quarterly of the Palatinateand B<nwna,obfturing the Lyon Guardant its Supporter,his Four SS’s only appearing quadrangularly, and hisHead a top enfign’d with an Electoral Crown } thisShield is encircled both within the Garter and Collar ofthe Order, and is the firft Example wherein both theftEnfigns are jointly together. It is very frequent to ex-prefs the Collars of different Orders together : Thus Ihave feen the Arms of Robert Dudley Earl of Leicejler,entour’d within the Garter, and a Collar of the Orderof St. Michael , having been Knight of theft Orders,and the Funeral Achievement of the late James Hamil-ton Douglas Duke of Hamilton, had the Garter and a Collarof the Thillle about it. And in a Plate under the Effi-gies of the Duke of Afpernons, a Shield of his Armsquarter’d, is encompafs’d with the chiefeft Enfigns ofthofe Three Orders, whereof he was a Brother andCompanion, viz. with the Garter and the Collars ofSt. Michael and the Holy Ghojl. And the older the Orderis in the Roll of Antiquity, whofe chief Enfign is therereprefented, the nearer ought it to be plac’d to theElcutcheon of Arms, being the more Honourable Poft.A Miftake was committed in the marfhaliing thefe Col-lars, when the Duke of Chevereux affixed it over his StallatWindfor, the Collars of St. Mithael and the Ho'y Ghojlate plac’d nearer to his Efcutcheon than that of theGarter.

§ 8. And whereas we have {poke of another kind ofCollar, call’d a Collar of SS’s, worn as Badges of lowerand inferior Honour, it will not be amifs to inform ourJudgment in other Affairs concerning them. Wice'iminforms us from a Book in the Library of Fulda, where(in the Lift of the T wo Brothers Simplicius and Faujlinm tboth Senators, and fuffer’d Martyrdom under Dioclejtan)there is a Defcription of the Society of St. Simplicius ,confiding of Noble Perfonages in their own Families,and deferibing the Collar wore as the Badge of itfays, thus; It was the Cujlom of thoje Per fonts to wear about

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