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venientibus Sanitatem Mentis afièreret, nifi quod Caput alpor tatuiti &:membra deinceps alia alio fublata. Sed Cor vividi Signaculum Amo-ris nifi quos femper intimos &c quam charifiimos habuit* folis Chri-ftianis* Reliquum facere voluit* nec omnibus utcunque Chriflianis* ve-rum Analis duntaxat $ neque quibuflibet Anglorum locis, at uni Winde •foro fûæ, Supremis certe femper & reliquis Equitibus præftantiffimifui Ordinis acceptiffimæ : Ubi cum bona Calvæ portione* quo decethonore, Venerationeque confervatur. Cor autem illud ad invi&iffimumHenricum Quintum attulit Sigifmundus Imperator Alemanicus, femperAuguftus, & in hunc Ordinem reverenter afeitus. Hernicus autem lo-co debito contradendum curavit; ubi Solennes fibi jam Exequiasimperpetuum inftituerat* ut eum locum cum primis colmile non du-bitetur. Suum denique E doardum Confèflòrem addiderunt Reges Edo-ardi 5 ut hiis fimul hujus Ordinis Patrocinium abfolvatur. Supereftaddendus* pius ac miraculofiis Henricus.

bis Ch appel, might he reßored to Somdnefs of Mind and Judgment :His Head and other Members were to be carried fome one Way, and fomeanother. But his Heart the Emblem of lively Love was bequeathedfolely to Chrißians for whom he had the moß fervent AjfeBion : Norto all them in general, tho ’ Chrißians, but to Englifhmen alone : Andnot to every Part of England, but only to his own Windfor* which onthis Account, muß have been more pleaßng to the Sovereigns and all othersthe Knights of this moß illußrious Order. This his Heart, together with alarge Part of his Skull is there kept with due Honour and Veneration.Sigifinond Emperor of Alemain, always Auguß, being chofe into this ho-nourable Order, pirfented this Heart to the invincible Henry the Fifth :Who gave Orders to have it referved in that convenient■ Place, where hehad already inßituted for hrnfelf folenm Exequies for ever, that the Re-gard he had for that Place above all others, might be paß Dijpute. TheEdwards afterwards added Edward the Confejfor, that by thefe together thePatronage of this Order might have been compleated. But there yet remainsto be added to thefe, the pious and wonderworking Henry.

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