ADDITIONAL NOTES.

PP. 4, 5. Name of the Order. —The observations which have been submitted to shew that theTitle of the Order is peculiarly adapted for an Order of Knighthood, are greatly strengthened by thefollowing passage in St. Palaye’s “ Memoires sur l’Ancienne Chevalerie,” (par Mons. Nodier, ed. 1826,tome I. p. 63), “ En donnant 1’Accolade, le Seigneur pronongoit ces paroles ou d’autres semblables,‘ Au nom de Died, de Saint Michel et de Saint George, Je te fais Chevalier.’ ”

P. 59, 1. 29, for “ Cavaliere” read “ Cavalieri.”

P. 87,1. 15, after “ for the time being,” insert “ but it is difficult to reconcile this declaration withthe Statutes which provided, that the Naval Commander-in-Chief should always be the First andPrincipal Knight Grand Cross.”

P. 93,1. 2, 3, 4.—The Chancellor has since been appointed a Knight Grand Cross; and a Statutewas issued on the 8th of November 1840, declaring that “the Chancellor for the time being may holdin conjunction with his Office, such other dignity or rank in the Order as the Sovereign may be pleasedto confer upon him.”—Vide p. 71, antea.

Motto of the Order. —Nothing is said respecting the Motto, in the History of the Order,because it was hoped that the trouble which has been taken to trace the words “ Auspicium MeliorisiEvi” to some author of antiquity, would, before this work was completed, have been successful. Butthough the learning of many eminent scholars has been employed in the inquiry, all that has beendiscovered is, that the legend “ Auspicium Melioris iEvi” occurs (over the Ark and the Dove holdingan olive branch) on a Coin of Wolfgan Wilhelm Count Palatine of the Rhine, in 1642, (vide Kohlers’Muntz Belustigung, vol. xxi. p. 417), and that in Menestrier’s “ Philosophia Imaginum id est SyllogeSymbolorum Amplissima,” p. 699, itis said, “Reverendi Patres ex Societate Jesu Flandrici primumseculum sui instituti celebrantes, Columbam pingebant cum Olivse ramo super Arca, et hac subscrip-tione, ‘ Auspicium melioris sevi‘ Le presage certain d’un siecleplus heureux.’ ” The words are alsothe Motto of the Duke of St. Albans, the descendant of a natural son of King Charles the Second.