habits AND ensigns.] SAINT MICHAEL AND SAINT GEORGE.

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together by small gold Chains .” 1 The Collar is fastened to the shoulders bybows of white ribband. As the Knights Grand Cross of this Order are notInstalled, they may wear the Collar as soon as they have been Invested, or havereceived a Warrant dispensing with that ceremony.

THE BADGE

of the Knights Grand Cross is “ a gold Cross of fourteen points enamelledargent, edged with gold, having on one side thereof, in the centre, within aCircle, azure, whereon is inscribed the Motto, Auspicium Melioris iEvi, inletters of gold, a representation of the Archangel Saint Michael, holding in hisdexter hand a flaming sword and encountering Satan: and on the Reverse,within the said Circle and Motto, a representation of Saint George armed, onhorseback, with a spear, encountering a Dragon.” It is ensigned with a repre-sentation of the Crown of the United Kingdom , 2 and is attached to the Collar(whenever the Collar is worn), but on all other occasions, to the Ribband, andfalls on the left side.

The Badges of the Knights Commanders, and Cavalieri 3 and Com-panions are exactly the same in form and materials as the Badge of theKnights Grand Cross, but they are smaller . 4 The Knights Commanders wearthe Badge to a Ribband, from the neck. The Badge of the Cavalieri andCompanions is fixed to a gold swivel with a bar of the width of the Ribband,and is worn pendant to the Ribband from the button hole of the Coat, to whichit is fastened by a gold buckle.

1 Art. VI. vide p. 46, antea.

2 Art. VI. p. 46, antea. In the Plate, the obverse of the Badge is shewn; but in the Plate of theBadge of the Knights Commanders, the reverse appears.

3 From some oversight, the Badges of the Third Class of the Order were originally made withoutthe Royal Crown, and the mistake was not corrected until August 1832.

4 See the annexed Plates, which are fac-similes.

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