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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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Companions Banners are lquare ; yet it does no where ap-pear whac the exadl Standard was ; yet we find them ujthe Reign of Queen Elizabeth to be two Yards and a Quar-ter Long, and a Yard and three Quarters Broad, befidesthe Fringe, which is compoied of Gold, or Silver and Silkof the Colours in the Wreath ; and on them are wrought’upon Taffety-Sarcenet, double Sarcenet, or rich Taffety’with fine Gold Colours on both fides, the Paternal Coatof the Kjoights-Companion, together with his Quartering,or fo many of them as he pleafes to ufe, and the Garteris to take care they be warrantably Marfhalled.

And becaufe a fingle Coat was not conceived toftandfair enough in a Banner of this proportion, the Sovereignhath been pleafed to grant a new Coat, to bear in Quar-ters his Paternal one, if he wanted it; as King James],did to Robert Carr, Vifcoutit Rachejler j to whole Pater,nal Coat he firft added a Lion Palfant, Gardant Or, inthe dexter Part, as an efpecial Gift of his Favour, andthen invented a new Coat, to be born in Quarter there-with, Quarterly Or and Gules, a Lyon RampantSable over all, June 8. Anno 9 Jac. I.

Thefe Banners of Arms are fixed to the End of longStaves, painted in Oil, formerly of the Colour of theWreaths, but now Red ; their Ends are put into Socketsof Iron, well fixed in the Wall, diredHy over the Knights-Companions Helms and Crefts, and frequently lined withFuftian to preferve them.

There is moreover to be provided a Copper Plate Gilt,whereupon are engraved, the Efcutcheon of the Knightselcdt Arms in Colours Enamilled, with his Quartering,Helm, Creft, and Supporters, and underneath, his Styleand Titles of Honour, encircled with a Garter. WhichPlate the Garter ufually takes Care to provide, and isto be fixed on the back of the Knights Stall, aifigned forhis Inftallation.

A Velvet Culhion is likewife to be provided, to carrythe Knight's eledt Mantle, Collar, Hood, and Book ofStatutes, before him, in the Progrefs into the Choire, inorder to his Inftallation. At the Inftallation of the LordTreafurer PVcjion, and the Earls of Exeter and Lindfey,who were inftalled, Anno 6 Car-.'i, the materials and g*r-iiilhing of thefe Culhions are recited feverally, ro contain

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