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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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rent upon the Choice of the Lord Howard, and Sir HenryMarney, Anno z Henry VIII. who was difparcbed fromthe Chapter, to conduct them to the Sovereigns Prefence *t0 be inverted with the principal Enfigns of the Order,the Garter and George.

And as Garter hath been accuftomed to iignify in Per-iod the EleBion of a Kyiight, in like manner an Electionis fignified, by the Letters of the Sovereign, when he ispleafed (for the greater Honour of thePerfon) to weaveby verbal Notice : In fuch Cafes, it’s the Chancellors Of-fice to draw up the Letters, and they are to pafs, bothunder the Sovereigns Sign Manual, and Signet of the Or-der. Such a particular mark of Diftinction and Honourwas conferr'd on our Sovereign of Blejfed Memory, KjngCharles II. Sir John Burrougb Garter, carrying the Let-ter.

Charles Bex,

“ Our moft dear and entirely beloved Son, having, to“ our great Comfort, feen and confldered the ripenefs of“ your Youth, and conceived joyful and pregnant Hopes“ of your manly Virtue, in which we are allured you“ will increafe, to your own Honour, both in Pro wefs,

‘‘ Wifdom, Juftice, and all Princely Endowments ; and*' that the Emulation of Chevalry will, in your tenderYears, provoke and encourage you, to purfue the GloryofHeroick Actions, befitting yOur Royal Birth, and ourCare and Education. We with the Companions of ourmoft Noble Order of the Garter, affembled in Chap-(1 ter , holden this prefent Day, at our Caftle of Windfor •u have Elected and Chofen you one of the Companions(( of our Order. In Signification whereof, we have fent« ™ t0 you, by our Trufty and Well-Beloved Servant,i. ~. r Bunough Knight-Garter, and our principal„ King of Arms, thefe our Bpyal Letters, requiring youi, J? ma Ee your fpeedy repair unto us, to receive the En-(( “gns of our moft Noble Order, and to be ready for„ yo ut Inftallation, upon the 21ft Day of this prefent„ Month. Given under the Signet of our Order, at ouri, ' e °f Windfor, the acth of May, in the 14th Year of- ot oar Leign, 1638.

To our dearly beloved Son Prince Charles,

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