ORDER OF THE GARTER.
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Windsorin January 1344, 8 ; Extracts from Chroniclein Leland’s Collectanea and from Fabian’s Chronicleas to the foundation of the Order, 9 n ; no mention ofthe Order in the Wardrobe Accounts between 1341and 1344, 10; no proceedings took place respectingit between July 1346, and October 1347, 11; ispresumed to have been finally established at the Tour-nament at Eltham before the close of that year, ib. ;the first Feast of the Order supposed to have beencelebrated at Windsor, ‘26th April 1348, 11 m; list ofarticles provided for the Tournament at Eltham, shew-ing that the Order was then, or very soon after, com-pletely formed, 12, 13 n; reasons stated for doubtingwhether all the Companions were at that time chosen,13 ; conclusive evidence that the Order was complete,and consisted of at least twenty-four Companions,before August 1348, 14; no direct allusion to theInstitution in the patent granted to the College ofSaint George, 22nd August 1348, whereby a Warden,Canons, and twenty-four poor Knights were appointed,15 ; passages cited from that patent and other docu-ments wherein the Order is indirectly referred to, 16;reasons for presuming that the number of Companionswas at this time fixed at twenty-four, 16, 17; ob-scurity respecting, and popular account of, the originof the principal Ensign of the Order, the Garter, 17—19; the popular tradition repudiated by Ashmole,Anstis, and Dr. Heylin, 17 n ; arguments in itsfavour, 18—22 ; other reasons assigned for the adop-tion of the Garter as the symbol of the Order, by Dr.Aldridge, 20 n ; notices of the Institution of the Orderby Pedro Mariz, a Portuguese, in 1598, 21; the Orderof the Garter placed under the protection of SaintGeorge, and called the “ Order of Saint George,”22, vide Saint George ; the Order supposed to havebeen founded by Letters Patent, 24 ; Offerings madefor deceased Brethren on Saint George’s Day 1353;the Queen and other ladies present at the Great Feastin 1358, 25 ; notices of payments made with respectto the Order between 1358 and 1377, 25 n.
Edward the Third, Founder and 1st Sovereign of theOrder of the Garter, abstract of the Statutes enacted by,at the Foundation of the Order (1349—1350), 26—31;critical notices of three copies of the Statutes attri-buted to King Edward the Third, 31 m; biographicalnotices of the Knights Founders, 32—38; sum-mary of the rank and names of the original Companions,and remarks upon the causes of their admission tothe Order in preference to others of higher rank,merit, and renown, 39; list of the Knights Compa-nions elected during the remainder of the Founder’sreign, 40—42 ; and order of their succession from1349 to 1376, according to the Windsor Tables, 42 n,43 n ; Death of Edward the Third, the Founder, 21stJune 1377, 43.
Richard the Second, 2nd Sovereign of the Order in1377, new Knights made, 44; Feast of Saint Georgecelebrated in 1379, when Ladies were received intothe Order, 45; other Knights Elected before 1384,45; further Elections previously to 1388, 46; theOrder offered to the Earl of Ostrevant in 1391, ib;the King of France displeased by his acceptance of it,he having in pursuance of the Statutes made oathnever to bear Arms against the Crown of England,47; a Tournament in Smithfield, October 1390, at-
tended by the King and twenty-four Knights of theGarter on his side, 48 ; the Feast of the Order cele-brated in 1392, 48; Robes delivered for SaintGeorge’s Day, 1397 and 1398, also in 1399 to theKnights Companions who had been elected since 1391,ib ; names and titles of the Knights so elected, 49,50 ; summary of their claims to distinction, 51 ; in-stances of the Garter having been bestowed uponthree members of the same family, ib ; successionof the Knights in the reign of Richard the Second,according to the Windsor Tables, 51 n ; remarks onthe causes which induced Independent Princes tohesitate in accepting each other’s Orders, illustratedby the cases of the Count of Ostrevant, and of theSire de Coucy Earl of Bedford, 52, 53 ; regard paidby the Companions to the honour of the Order, andtheir desire to save the members from disgraceful pun-ishments, shewn by the case of Sir Simon Burley, 53 ;deposition of King Richard the Second, 53.
Henry the Fourth, 3rd Sovereign of the Order, 54 ;list of deceased Knights and of those appointed to thevacant Stalls between 1399 and the death of the Sove-reign in 1413, 54—57 ; election of the Prince ofWales and King of Spain, 54 ; of the King of Portu-gal, 55; robes issued to Knights of the Order in1402, 54; in 1408, 55; in 1409, xvi; anecdoterespecting the Order, 1413, 57 ; his death, ib.
Henry the Fifth, 4th Sovereign of the Order, 57 ;additions made by him to the Statutes, ib ; the pro-ceedings of the Chapter first recorded during his reign,58 ; list of the Knights who received Livery of theOrder for Saint George’s Day 1413, 58 n; HenryLord Scrope, convicted of treason, the sentence ofhanging remitted because he was a Knight of theGarter, 59; Elections between April 1414 and May1416, 59; list of Companions for whom Livery wasprovided in 1416, 59 n ; the Emperor of Germanyelected, and the Feast of Saint George held at Wind-sor in May 1416, 60 ; list of the Knights after theElection of the Emperor, 60 n ; the Feast kept at theCastle of Caen in 1418, 60 ; a Chapter held, and fiveKnights elected during the Siege of Rouen, 1448, 61;the Annual Feast in 1419 held by the Duke of Bed-ford, when an alteration was made in the Statuteswith respect to Installation by Proxy, 62; the Anni-versary held at Windsor in 1421, when the King ofDenmark signified his acceptance of the Order, 62 ;list of the Knights who received Livery of the Orderin 1421, 62 n; a Chapter held at Windsor May1421, when six Knights were elected, and alterationswere made in the Ceremonials and Statutes, 63;ceremonial appointed for receiving the Sovereign inSaint George’s Chapel, 65 ; Institution of the office ofKing of Arms of the Order; Chapter held by theDuke of Bedford in 1422 ; Philip Duke of Burgundyelected ; death of the Sovereign, 66.
Henry' the Sixth, 5th Sovereign of the Order, 66;names of the Companions for whom Robes were madein 1423, 66 n; Proceedings in a Chapter held by theDuke of Gloucester in 1423, 67; Chapter held in1424, when the Duke of Burgundy declined his elec-tion, 68 ; remarks on the alleged expulsion of Sir JohnFastolf from the Order, 69; Election of the Duke ofCoimbra in Chapter held by the King in person, 1427,