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St. George’* Day made Fejhun duplex.

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5 5, How this Noble Order flourifhed from its Foun-dation to the time of Henry V. no Account can be given,fince the Annals thereof are wanting to his Reign ; butthen it appears to have been in coniiderable Splendor j butthe Civil Wars toward the end of Henry Vlth’s Reign,eclipfed it for a while. Under King Edward IV. whenthings were a little fettled, it feem’d to recover and inKing Henry VUIth’s time, was at a greater heighrh thanever. However, though the fcveral Branches of the Orderreceiv’d, fome Augmentation from the influence of this

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