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Corporis abunde confiderarat Edoardus, Equites eo Tempore in Ordinemalfumptos, & ad fili prælêntiam accerlìtos, Sacramentis & Sigillis appoli-tis aftrinxit, ut Ordini lubfignata Statuta conlervanda propugnandaq, cu-rarent. His honorifice pieq; peractis Rex Caduciatores emifit in ImperiumAlemaniæ, Regnum Gallia, Scotia, Burgundi#, Renault ia, Flandria, & Bra-bantia, ut in Statam Wind efori Celebritatem proxime futuram Equites & Ar-migeri convenirent undiq; ex Sententia. Liberum enim fore lingulis poliSc ante dies quindecim Georgiana Celebritatis proxime tum adventantis : utillic præludiorum militarium,martiorum A&uum & lllultrium apparatuumpublicitus Exercitamenta quædam, cæteraq; Spectacula & Munera lolemni-tati locoque quam optime Servientia præberentur ; quibus & illuftrilTima at-que excellentilfima Regina, Ornatuq; intente Iplendidilfima cum trecentise formofiffimis Dominabus,& Generis atq; amictus honore quoq^conlpicuis,interfait. Sic enim afiolebat a multis retro temporibus, ut cum ludi Celebres,præclara Munera, publicaq; de more Spcótacula præberentur, m quibus ViriNobiles 6c Magnanimi le pro Viribus oftentarent : R'eginæ quoque, Domina:& illuftres alioqui fœmmæ cum Grandevæ ætatis Equitibus & Caduciato-ribus eleótis tanquam futuræ Geftorum haud iniquæ Judices, interrile, cernere,dilcernere, probare atq; improbare deberent, polcere, lortiri, ore, nutu,interloquio, Rem quæ in Manu fuit promovere pollent, ore ciere Vi-ros, Martemque accendere Vultu. Quibus adjunCti Caduciatores, ut pe-ritius atque exaCtius intuentes una judicarent : utq; pailnn &c ex Officio

thofe Knights, ‘whom at that Time he admitted into the Order, and the Fami-liarity of his Prefence, they putting their Seals to it, that they would takeCare to preferve, defend, and maintain the Statutes and Pules of their Order.After he had with great Honour and Piety finißed this Work, he fent He-ralds to the Emperor of Alemain, the Kingdom of France, Scotland, Bur-gundy, Henau It, Flanders and Brabant, that their Knights, and Efquiresfrom all Parts at their Difcretion, might come to the appointed Cele-brity and Solemnity to be held at Windfbr : That all ßould be free forthe Space of fifteen Days before, and after the Celebration of the Feafi ofSt. George then enfuing, to the Intent that martial Trials, military Per-formances, publick and dlufirious Exercifes, Appearances, and Shews becomingand fuiting the Place and Solemnity ßould be prefented and exhibited. At thisAppearance, was his excellent Queen fplendidly arrayed with three hundred beau-tiful Ladies, eminent for the Honour of their Birth, and the Gracefulnefs andBeauty of their Clothing and Drefis. For heretofore when Jußs, Tournaments,Entertainments and publick Shews were made, in which Men of Nobility and Va-lour ßewed their Strength and Prowefs -, the Queen, Ladies, and other Women ofillufirious Birth with ancient Knights, and fome chofen Heralds were wont tobe, and as it was fuppofed that they ought to be prefent as proper Judges, tofee, difeern, approve or dijprove what might be done, to challenge, allot,by Speech, Nod, Difcourfe, or otherwife to promote the Matter in Hand, to en»courage and fiir up Bravery by their Words and Looks. Heralds were placedwith, and joined to them that they might be able to judge with the more Skil-fulnefs and ExaSlnefs : And that the Heralds according to their Duty and

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