an

■i w

data

( !9I )

then Prelate had the fame allowance, one Cloth of Vio-let in grain and other Materials. But the Difcrimina-tion was in the Bellies of Minevers, whofe Numberwas now much encreafed, and that the fame allowancewas bellowed on him in the nth and 19 th Years of thefaid King. But in thefe three Inftances the Colour ofthe Cloth Was different, and fuitable to the Knights-Companions Surcoats, thofe very Years, viz. Violet ingrain, White and Blue, and Anno 1 2. Hen. VI. theKobe of Henry Beaufort , Cardinal and Prelate wasWhite, as then were the Surcoats of the Knights-Com-panions, whence it is evident the Livery formerlyallowed the Prelate annually varied in Colour, as didthe Knighfs-Companions Surcoats.

In that ancient Precedent of the Liveries of the Gar-ter, remaining in the great Wardrobe* wherein theSurcoats of the Knights-Companions are reduced to aStated proportion in the meafure of the Cloth, numberof Furs and Garters, modeled out according to theirHate degrees, there the Prelate hath the following al-lowance for his Livery,

24. Yards of Woollen Cloth.

is Sr, p-j

3 Timber de Bifs.

fr® By all which it is manifefl: what Materials and colour•1 & the Prelate’s Robe was of at the inflitution of the Or-lf ® der, and for a long time after, nor do we find any>ftk variation until the Reign of King Hen. VIII. and thentfitct this Habit was ordained to be Crimfon Velvet, lin’d4 j with white Taffaty, faced with blue, and thereonK®' 1 down the opening before upon the bordures, fundrytkf Royal cognizances on the right fide, the Rofeof Eng-of Sc land Crowned, on the left fide oppofite one of King5®ii! Edvi. IV’s. Badges, viz. a Rofe within the Sun BeamsCrowned; and then the aforefaid Badges again vicea parf verfa, with more Damashings 3 on the right fide theiiaiv Flower de luce of France Crowned, and on the leftsW Fde King Edvii Ill’s, peculiar Badge, viz. The Sun, : oatv Beams iffuing out of a Cloud, and thofe Badges re-fct't; P eate d alternate fituatipnsj every Badge inter-syt O a polated,