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prenderetur. O Socii, Socii, Trojanus Æneas inquit. Confocios foæ Profpe-ritatis & Adverfitatis Arthurus appellitat. Commilitones iuos paiTim fc vo-cafie Cafar in Commentariis oftendit, ut Complures alios ad id non memine-rim. Sed neq-, Æqualitas hæcita fovebitur, ut Iniquitatem pariat. Non eftper eam fous cuiquam detrahendus honor, aut imminuenda Poteftas, verumhoc in Mente temper habendum, quod hæc Societas & Ordo vocetur. Eftautem Ordo in foo cujutep loco Collocatio, ut oftente pro dignitate forisImparitas,internam tamen Animi paritatem, & inter fe fraternam Amicitiamomnino foveat & confervet. Veftes itidem atqj Ornamenta fimilem figuramexhibent,& eodem intendunt. Infigni nanq; & orbiculari Subfibulo alteriushumeri, feu Cruris admonentur Equites, ut pie, finceriter, amice, fideliter,& dexteriter, omnia quæ aggrediuntur itaqj perficiant : Ne quid contra Sa-cramentum & Ordinis inftituta fofcipiant aut pertentent, ne pacis & ami-citiæ leges evacuent, aut belli jura contemnant : ne contra quam fides exi-git, aut foedus &: amicitiæ copula requirit pedem extendant, neve ufquamvel pedetentim, amicus amico deroget. Torquis ex hujufmodi Orbiculis& Nodis preciofos Infigni Georgio ex æquo de pedtore vernans, &c fpendidecircum Nobiles Cervices inductus, de tali fidei, pacis & amicitiæ Vinculotemper ardtiftime tenendo fimiliter admonet, ut ceu Cathena qtiadam illo-rum animi fint annexi, vindtiq; permaneant & inter fe invicem irrevulfi.

. Infigne Georgii thoraca protegens, pedtus illud in foi Memoriam vocat, utquemadmodum ipfe proprius eorum Divus, Chrifti & Sponfe ejus Ecclefiæ

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ethers which I fiali not mention. But then this Equality is not to he encouraged', Joas to produce Injußice. The Honour due to every one, is by no Means to hedenied him upon this Account, or is his Power to he leffened, for it is always tohe remembered, that this Society alfo is called an Order. Order is the Difpofitionof every Thing in its proper Place, fo that tho' there appear in Publick, a Diffe-rence and DißinBion in Dignity, neverthelefs an Equality of Affe&ion, andBrotherly Friendfiip is inwardly, and in private preferred and cherified. Ap-

parel likewife, and Ornaments by the Figures of them mean the fame. For bythat honourable and orbicular Garter round one Leg or on the Shoulder, the Knightswere reminded, whatever they undertook to go thorow it with Piety, Sincerity,and Friendfiip, Faithfulnefs, and Dexterity : That they fiould not undertake, orattempt any Thing contrary to the Oath and Inßitution of their Order, that theyfiould not make void the Laws of Peace and Amity, or negleffi and break inupon the Rights, which belong to the Ufage of War. That they fiould not ßira Foot contrary to their Fidelity, or what their Union and Band of Friendfiip re-quired : And that one Friend fiould not in the leaf derogate from another. The Collarcompofed ofthefe fort of Buckles and Boffes, precious with the Enßgn of St. George,hanging in the midß of their Breaß, and put round the Necks of Noblemen, re-minds them of being bound together in the fame Bond of Fidelity, Peace, andFriendfiip, that, as with a Chain, their Affe&ions might be linked together, andremain united, fo as not to be feparated. The George hanging down upon theBreaß, puts them in Mind of him, and that, as he being their proper Saint,fiewed himfelf a faithful and glorious Soldier of Chriß, aud his Spoufe the Church,they alfo fiould approve themfelves glorious Soldiers, and faithful Afferters of