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The PREFACE,

P. ii 6 . To the Precedents that Princes formerly prefen ted each otherwith their Liveries, it may be added, that as the King of France had in1 3 9 3 lent his Collar of the Bromcodds to Rich. II, fo our King uponhis Marriage with the Princefs Ifabel, prefented the King of France her Fa-ther with a rich Collar of great Value. “ le Roy d’Engleterre de hon cueur<c miß au col du Roy [de France] ung tresheau & précieux colier riche de“ grant valeur.” Le tiers vol. des Croniq. de France imprime par Verard1422, f. Cv.

In P. 11 6. And other Places,, it hath been conjectured oür Kings gaveCollars as their Livery, or Device, which were varied in their Fafliion, orFigures by our Monarch? of different Lines, And as lèverai Authoritieswere produced to fhew that Rich. II. gave that of the White Hart fromthe 1 4th Year of his Reign, fo it was hinted that Hen. IV, after his Ac-ceffion to the Throne, introduced the Collar of S. S. as the royal Badge,which he had ufed prior to that Time, while he was Piled Earl of Derby.The Earl of Kent was deprived of the Title of Duke of Surrey by Act ofParliament, when Hen. IV feized the Crown, and this Earl foon afterwardsmeeting with fbme Perfons who had the Badges of this King, pluckedthem from their Necks, and allo the Badges of the Crefcents from theArms of fome others, afferting that Rich. II was then living. The Cres-cent wis the Devile of Percy advanced to the Earldom of Northumberlandat the Coronation of this Hen. IV, in Recompence of the Affiftancc hehad given him -, for thus John Gower in his Poem deferibes him

Hdc fub fortuna prœfens Aquilonica luna,

Which by a Note in the Margin he explains Comes Northumbrian cujush num luna crefcens. Tiber. A. 4. p. 152 in bibl. Cotton. Walfingham, ashis Hiftory is printed p. 404, under the 1 Hen. IV. thus words it cc de-cc traxit ßgna Regis , fcilicet Collaria de'collis quormdam , quos vidit ibi ha -tc bentes ßgna tedia cum defpeffu, &c. Detraxit infuper de brachiis domicello-tc rum ßgna Crefcentium, & abjecit ,” Now in the Mf Copy inter Cod. Nor -fole. in Off. Arm. the Words are C( detraxit ßgna Regis S. collaria ” ôcc. Andin this Manner, the Editor conceives that Hiftorian fpecified the Form ofthefe Badges, worn by the Partizans of Hen. IV, by deferibing them tobe the Collars of S. S. mifprinted fcilicet , efpecially lìnee he afterwardsparticularized the Badges of the Crefcents.

P. i 2 1 . ’Tis conjectured that the prefent Collar of the Order mightbe inftituted in the Interval, between the fixth and eighteenth Years ofHen. 7. In Julius c. ix. p. 15. in bibl. Cotton. After the Entry of aChapter laid to be held in the Palace of Weßm. on 1 6 of Nov. 3 Hen. 7.par luy come Soveraigne, et per les Compaignons du dit ordre , ainß qui fi apresenfuit ; follow the Statutes bearing the Name of Ed. 3, whereof the ladArticle mentions the Collar in the ufual Form, but that Book being boundout of loofe Papers, feems not to be of very great Authority- The firftInftance that Mr. Aßmole p. 222 gives of this Collar of the Garter, ison the Tomb of the Lord Daubeney who died 22 FT. 7. In other Placesof his Book he prefents us with Rituals, where the Collar of the Order is

mentioned