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The History Of the most Noble Order of the Garter : Wherein is set forth An Account of the Town Castle, Chapel, and College of Windsor; with their several Officers ; The Foundation of the Order by King Edward III. ; With the Statutes, and Annals at large, as they have been altered and amended ; An Account of the Habits, Ensigns and Officers of the Order ... To which is prefix'd, A Discourse of Knighthood in General, and the several Orders extant in Europe
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tnent (but not to pafs it by way of Nomination or Vote,for that the Law of the Order did not permit) to theSovereign, or his Lieutenant and Knights Companionsaflembled at the Feaft, of fuch Perfons famous for mar-tial Valour and.Virtue, with an Account of their gallantAds and Achievements, (attefled by other Perfons ofHonour) as were at that time, and in that Kingdom, inthe Sovereign’s Service, and feemed worthy Candidatesfor the Honour of the EleCtion, to the intent victoriousand brave Perfons might be preferr’d to fo noble andfublime a Poll ; an Example whereof we find prefervedby the Induftrious and Learned Dugdale.

<( A/fY Lord the Due of Bedford remembreth, as by theStatutes of the Order of the Gartre,the EleCtion“ ofthe Stalls voyde. He faith in the Voyc of theBrethren,

“ and of the Fellowfhip, beyng at the tyme of the Feft,

“ in the Prefence of the Soverain or hys Deputy; that“ thinkyth to my faid Lord, that for hys Acquital to“ Knighthood, that fytteth hym to give in Knowledge“ to the Kyng Soverain of the Ordre, and to his Fel-“ lowfhip of the fame Ordre, the great Honours of the“ notable Knights, that from tyme to tyme exereyfeth,

“ and have exereyfed in Knighthood ; and efpecially“ in the Service of their Soverain Lord. And of fuch“ notable Knyghts as my Lord of Bedford, for the tyme“ remembreth him of, he hath by the Advyce of them“ of the Fellowfhip of the Ordre, being now in France,“ >n the Kyngs Service, and givyng in charge to the“ faid Garter Kyng of Arms, of the Ordre, to fhew“ theyr Names to the Kyng, and to expound Part of“ theyr Deeds, Acts, and of theyr Worthynefs. Firft“ expofe the Honour of Sir John Radeclyjf that hath“ contynowed all the tyme of the victorious Kyng that“ laft dyed, whom Chrifte abfolve, at the firft lan-“ ding of hym, at Qu'tes de Caux, where the fayd Radeclyjf“ receyved the Order of a Knyght,and after contynowed“ the Siege of Hare flew. And after with my Lord of Ex-“ cejler at the Battaile of Fallemont, and of Quies de Caux.“ And alfo fithen thedeth of the fayd victorious Kyng,“ Radeclyjf being Senefchall of Cuyen, hath brought by“ hys Labour in Knyghthood to hys Soveraign Lord’s

“ obeyfance,

 
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