theirNecks Silver Collars, compos’d of double SS’s, which denotethe Name of Same Simplicius, between thefe double SSsThe Collar conjjfled of Twelve fmall Plates of Silver, \ nwhich were engraven the Twelve Articles of the Creed, tove.ther with a jingle Trefoil: The Image of St. Simpliciushung at the Collar , and prom it Seven Plates , reprefenttng theSeven Gifts of the Holy Ghojl. As to the manner of theirMartyrdom, they were bound together by the Necl^_ to a Stoneand thrown over the Bridge into the River Tybcr.

At what Time the Collar of SS’j came into England isnot fully determin’d, but it will appear at lead ThreeHundred Years fince, and worn as an Ornament forWomen, as well as Men; for on a Monument in theCollegiate Church of Warwick, the Figure of Margaret,Wife to Sir William Peito (faid to be interr’d TempEdw. III.) hath a Collar of SS’j drawn about, and faclofe to her Neck, which the Sculpture in The Antiquhties of Warwickfhire, by miftake, reprefented like aRuff There was alio a Collar of SS’j about the Neckof Sir Simon Burley’s Statue in St. Paul’s London.

In the ancient Creation of an Efquire in England ,part of the Ceremony was the King’s putting about hisNeck a Silver Collar of SS’j. And Selden, in his Titlesof Honour contemns not the old Ballad, The Tanner ofTamworth, to prove the Creation of Efquiresin KingEdw. IV’s Reign, by conferring fuch Collars on them.But that the Golden one was the undoubted Badge ofa Knight, as may be inftanc’d by many undeniable Ex-amples, deduc’d from the Monuments of fuch Perfons,Temp. Hen. VI. Ed. IV. Hen. VII. Hen. VIII. and fince, andfo legally appropriate thereto, that in the A£l 24 H. VIII.made for Reformation of Apparel, there is a Provifoentred, That Knights, notwithftanding, might pub-iickly wear a Gold Collar of SS’j, tho’ fince it is grownobfolete and ufelefs. Favin tells us that our Hen. V. in-flituted an Order furnam’d Knights of the SS’j, on theDay of the Martyrs St. Crifpine and Crifpianus ; whichtho’ he found nothing of it in our Englifh Hiftorians,yet from the Chronicle of Juvenal des Urjins, where hetreats of the Battle of Agin court , he collected this fol-lowing Relation.