eumftances, wjhich yet it would be improper for anHiftorian to be minute, and fcrupuloufly Particularin relating. And even die Clerks of the Wardrobe it-lelf do not always mention thole Particulars of theCovering of the Bath, and of the Bed, which yet areknown to be implied, or tacitly comprehended in theirAccounts: Even in the Reign of Hen. VII, a Rollexhibiting the Names and Arms of all the Knightscreated by him, only mentions in general, Knyghts tnadeat the Coronacion off the Kyng Knyghts made att the Co-ronacion off the Quene $ Knyghts ?nade att the Creacion ofPrynce Arthur; Knyghfs made att the Creacion off Hen-ry Duc of York-, without delcending to diftinguiflithem, as Knights of the Bath ; though thefe werecertainly foj as will appear from the Inftrumentsin the Appendix, taken from other Memoirs of thatReign.

This, I apprehended, might be conveniently pre-miled, as introdu&ory to what I am proceeding toeite from /Mr. Camden, who relates, fC That as to the<c Knights of the Bath, he had found nothing more“ ancient, than that this Dignity was in ule among<c the old Franks , and that Henry the Fourth, King of<{ England, on the Day of his Coronation, in thei( Tower of London , conferred the fame upon Forty-fix(f Elquires, who had watched all Night before, and

/ Britannia, p. 124.

had