temp. edw. iv.— hen. via.] ORDER OF THE BATH.

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Upton, who wrote about the middle of the fifteenth century, thus speaks ofKnights of the Bath: “ Knights are also created in another manner, namely, bythe Bath, which form is observed in England, and in other Realms where peacereigneth. Those Knights who are created by the Bath bear, by usage, on theleft shoulder, a White Military Badge, which Badge, the said tyro shall wearuntil he shall perform some notable feat, unless any noble lady take it off,according to the custom of England.” 1

Another creation of Knights of the Bath took place in January 1477, at themarriage of the young Duke of York. 2 On the Accession of King Edward theFifth, fifty persons, among whom were the Lords Ormond, Grey of Ruthynand Sutton, the sons and heirs apparent of the Lords Bergavenny and Cobham,Henry Vernon, Esquire, Cornwall of Burford, and Henry Colet, an Aldermanof London, were commanded “ to prepare and furnish themselves to receive theNoble Order of Knighthood,” at the approaching Coronation; 3 but that cere-mony did not take place, and some of those individuals received the dignitywhen King Richard the Third was Crowned. 4 King Henry the Seventh, athis Coronation, rewarded many of his adherents with the Knighthood of theBath, and among them was his faithful servant, Sir Reginald Braye, who wasafterwards elected a Knight of the Garter. 5 Several other creations of Knightsof the Bath occurred in that reign, and full accounts of the proceedings arepreserved, 6 namely, at the Coronation of the Queen in 1487; at the creationof the Prince of Wales in November 1489, and of the Duke of York in 1494;at the marriage of Prince Arthur in 1501; and at the creation of Henry Dukeof York, as Prince of Wales, in February 1504.

King Henry the Eighth, “ in araising of the ancient nobles of England, hathappointed twenty-six of the most able persons, and of honourable blood, and

1 “ Creantur et alio modo Milites, videlicet per Balneum, qui modus observatur in Anglia et aliisregnis, ubi pax regnat. Ipsi Milites, qui creantur per Balneum portant de consuetudine in humerosinistro suum stigma militare album, quod quidem stigma dictus tiro portabit, quousque fecerit aliquodnotabile factum, nisi aliqua nobilis Domina illud tollat, ut docet consuetudo Anglise.”— Upton deStudio Militari, pp. 7, 10.

2 Contemporary MS. penes Anstis, Appendix, No. lii.

3 Foedera, XII. 185, and Anstis, Appendix, No. liv.

* Anstis, Appendix, No. lv. from a MS. marked “ W. Y.” in the College of Arms.

s Ibid. No. lvi. from a contemporary MS.

6 Printed by Anstis, Appendix, Nos. lvit, lviii, lix, lx, lxi, from the Cottonian MS. B. xii.f. 33, 59, 91. They are also printed in Iceland’s Collectanea, and will be found in the Appendix.