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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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fugal, Anno V} Hen. VI. the Mantle, Surcoat, and H 0 odwere accompted for in the Great Wardrobe, and is to thisDay pradifed,*

However of late the Sovereign hath been pleafed, nowand then, to confer the Mantle upon a Kpight-SubjeH,Witnefs King James I. Anno n. did to James Marquifsof Hamilton ; and Kmg Charles I. Anno 4. to TbeophilusEarl of Suffolk, and the Year enfuing to William, Earl ofNorthampton : And Anno 14. Sir James Palmer, by hisSovereign’s Diredlion, paid for the Velvet and Taffety ofthe Earl of Kell/ s Mantle and Surcoat, to Sir Peter Hichaut,and pin it upon the Account of the extraordinary Expenceof the Order.

King Charles II. as a fignal Mark of his Favour, caufedSeventeen Mantles ("with the ufual Liveries of Surcoat andHood,) to be made ready againft the grand Feaft of St.George, Anno 13. which he confered not only among thenew eled Knights, but upon the Earls of Salisbury, Bar\-fhire, and Northumberland, that were three Senior Knights-Companions.

The Collar of the Order, and the great George, theeled Knight is to provide himfelf, unlefs where the So*vereign is pleafed to beftow the Mantle, which is alwaysaccompanied with the Collar, and then a like Warrantiflues to the Mafter of the Jexvel-Houfe, as was ufed forproviding the feventeen Collars, Anno 13 Car. II.

The black Velvet Cap before-mentioned and delcribed,with the Helm, Creft, and Mantlings, together with aSword and Girdle, are to be got in readinefs by the careand diredion of the Garter, but at the Expence of theKnights eled ;■ all which are to be fet over his Stall, asfoon as his Inftallation Fees are paid.

This Honour, that every Knight-Comfanion (hall havehis Helm, Creft, and Sword, affixed ever his Stall at theChappel of St. George, is particularly provided for in allthe feveral Bodies of Statutes ; and are ordained to re-main there during the Lives of the Poffeflors, In Memoryof him that bears them, and a Teflimony cf the Defence ofthe Church, as the Oaths of Military Orders require.

The Helms upon this Occafion are compofed of Steel,and of a more than ordinary proportion; thofe for Sove-reign Princes are framed open, with large Barrs; but thofefor the Knights-Subiects are made clofe. About King

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