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MISCELLANEOUS REMARKS.

[ARMORIAL BEARINGS.

Stall Plates of the Knights of the Garter, their Arms are encircled with theGarter only.

The Knights of The Thistle having no instructions in the Statutes,imitate the Knights of the Garter, by surrounding their Arms with a greenCircle, containing the Motto of the Order (nemo me impune lacessit, inletters of gold), or with the Collar; or with both the Circle and Motto, andthe Collar, the Badge being attached thereto.

The Knights of Saint Patrick are directed by the Statutes to surroundtheir Arms with the Collar; 2 but, like the Knights of the other Orders, theysometimes place a light blue Circle, containing the Motto, quis separabit , 3either with, or without the Collar, round their escutcheons.

The Knights, now called Knights Grand Cross of the Bath, arepermitted by the Statutes, to place their Arms within a red Circle, chargedwith the Motto, tria juncta in uno, in gold letters, 4 to which a represen-tation of their Badge is appended. The Knights also place their Collar roundtheir Arms, either with, or without the Circle and Motto, though no expressauthority for doing so is to be found in the Statutes, 5 and though there areonly two precedents for it on Stall Plates, that of the Duke of Montagu, thefirst Grand Master, in 1725, and of the late Duke of York in 1772, bothof whom were Knights of the Garter. 6 The manner in which the Civil andMilitary Knights Grand Cross usually bear their Arms, is shewn by theannexed engravings:

2 History of the Order of Saint Patrick, p. 17.

3 Vide the Engraving in page 23, postea.

* History of the Order of the Bath, pp. 57, 2l8.

5 The Statutes, however, authorize the Knights of the Bath to have the Collar represented on theirPictures, Limnings, Sculptures, and Monuments. Ibid. pp. 65, 194..

6 History of the Order of the Bath, p. 218.