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fidelis & gloriofiis Miles extitit, fie & ipfi Chrifti chrillianæq; Religionisac Societatis, in Singularem fili Gloriam fideles Milites àc propugnatoresevadant. Trabea purpurea leu pallium oftreum privatæ Majeftads nota-men habet, led animi prælèntem quoque fortitudinem appetite lignificar :quæ tanta jam hiis viris inelle debeat, ut Sanguinem ante fundendum exilii-ment, quam Caufe Dei & Supremi fili non coalfillant : ut eos vita prius p. T j,quam Virtutis & Amicitiæ tuitio deferat. Hæc Significatio peculians &privata Singulorum, communis autem omnium : ut illorum obtutus facesCharitatis in fiimmam omnium perniciem (proh J Dolor) fæpius extinclas,ex omni parte redaccenderet. Nempe quin is Rex inclitilfimus & Ordinisfhturi Supremus, Remp. Chrillianam multis retro temporibus nunc Seditio-nis apertæ fluctibus undique jadatam, & intellini belli Scopulis impie mi-fereque Collilam, nunc vero fimultatis, occultæ fàótionis & infidiolæ Ma-chinationis Vulneribus exulceratam alpexilfet j cogitare ccepit quodnampræfentius Remedium adhibere polfit, quo fic nutabundam, atque labantemerigeret 3 eredam inviolabili Statu lolidaret. Illiqj fic diutine reputanti, tan-dem Coelitus hujus illultrillimi quidem Ordinis, & làndilTimæ Societatis inMentem venit : quam ubi lolenniter inllituens omni fiio decore communie-rat, beatilfimæ Virgini, landoq; Martyri Georgia nuncupavit ; ut quorumope Milites Anglicani maxime fiibnituntur, eorum Simulachra luis quam-primum Infignibus excolenda celebrandaq-, fiilciperent. Sic Arthurus longeprius fendimme Dei Gentitricis Imagunculam Clypeo filo femper im-

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Chrtß, the chrißian Religion, and their Society. The Purple Rohe, or VelvetMantle hears the Mark of private Majeßy , and properly ßgnifies Prefence, andBravery of Mind : Which ßould be fo great in thefe Men , that they ought ra-ther to lofe their Bloody than ever ßrink from the Caufe of God and their Sove-reign: That they ßould lofe their Lives, fooner than be wanting in the Defenceof Virtue and Friendßip. This is the peculiar Signification of particular Robes ;but the common Meaning of them all is, that the Sight of them might rekindlethofe Sparks of Charity, which to the very great Detriment and DeßruBion ofMankind had been extinguißed. For this our illufirious King and Sovereign: ofthe Order he was about to found, having obferved that formerly all Chrillendomhad been difquieted, and agitated by open and bare-faced Seditions, and ßame-fully and traiteroufiy drove againfi, and ßattered upon the Rocks of inteßineWars : And that it was now tom with Wounds from the ill Will of privateFaSlions, and envious Deßgns of treacherous Dijfemblers -, began to think whatmoß prefent Remedy might be applied to raifi it from its low and weak Condi-tion, and to confirm, ßrengthen, and preferve it when reßored to Vigor: Andhaving long thought upon this, Heaven at laß direffed him to found thisnoble Order, and facred Society : And having folemnly inßituted and eßab -lißed it in all its Grace and Glory, he dedicated it to the moß blejfed Vir-gin, and George the holy Martyr -, that their Images, on whofe AßßanceEnglidi Warriors chiefly rely, ßould be bore by them with RefpeU and Vene-ration in their Enfigns. In like Manner Arthur, long before this, had theImage of the holy Mother of God engraven on his Shield -, by which Sighthe was put frequently in Mind of the holy Mary. Who with his drawn

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