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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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hangs: And Jaftly tye the Collar about his Shoulder^over his Mantle and Hood; and at this part of the Inve-ftiture, the following Words of Admonition are like wifepronounced.

' To the encreafe of your Honour, and in Tofen of the Ho~mutable Order you have receiv'd ; take this Collar aboutyour Neck, with the Image of the Holy Martyr, and Chrift'sjfnight, Sr. George, by whofe aid you being defended, maypafs through the Profperities and Adverjities of this World,that having here the Victory, as well of four GhoJUy as BodilyEnemies, you may not only receive the Glory and Renown ofTemporal Chivalry, but alfo at the lafl, the endlefs and ever-lejling reward of Viclory,

This Form of Words receiv'd likewife alteration whenKing Charles II. was to be inftalled, to the Tenor fol-lowing.

P/ear this Collar about thy Neck, adorn'd with the Imageof the Blejfed Martyr and Soldier of Chrifl, St. George,by whofe Imitation provoked, thou may ft fo overpafs bothfnfperous and adverfe Encounters, that having ftoutly van-‘Juifhed thy Enemies, both of Body and Soul, thou may ft notonly receive the Praife of this tranjient Combat, but beCrmned with the Palm of eternal ViSlory,

Antiently at the Solemnity of Inftallation, when theSovereign, or his Lieutenant was prefent, the eledtKnight, after he had been invefted with the Mantle inhis Stall, was immediately conducted out of the Choir,hack to the Chapter-Hcufe, where the Sovereign, orLieutenant, ufed to remain till his return, there to receivethe Collar of the Order from one of them, which done,he is faid to have receiv’d the entire Poffefiion of his Ha-hit. This is conrained in King Henry VIII’s Scatures,and appears to have been rhe Practice about that Time,as in the cafe of the Lord Mount joy, and others, 18 Hen. VIII".and feveral others after, in the i and 3 Edw. VI. and the3 > 5 > and 14 Elig. The Proceeding back to the Chapcer-hioufe on this occafion, was much after the manner ofwhat is before mention'd, except, that here the new ir-“alled Knight took his Place according to the Dignity of

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