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tc had bathed themfelves; that he gave to every one“ of them a green Side-coat reaching down to the Ancle,(( ftrait-fleeved, and furred with Menever, and ha-<c ving on the Lefr-ihoulder two white filk Twifts“ hanging loole, with Tadels at them j” which Words,as far as they relate to Henry IV, are apparently ta-ken from £ Froißart’s Narrative of that Coronation.& Mr. Seiden feems to have followed the Opinionof this learned Antiquary; for he writes, “ that the“ firft expreß Mention of the Knights of the Bath,<c as of a diftind Order, is commonly attributed to<f the Beginning of Henry the Fourth ” and he quotesthe fame Padage from Froifart, ff that this King, at“ his Coronation, made Forty-fix Knights at the Tower,tc who were bathed ” though he loon refers us to whathe had fäid in the other Parts of his Treatile, aboutbathingy in making Knights-Batchilers (as he termsthem) by the Kings of France and England, long be-fbre the Reign of Henry IV. Others * have pretendedto diicover a more early Rife of this Dignity and Ap-pellation, from a Statute in the ioth of Richard II,which in the old Prints was expreded in'fuch a Män-ner, as might at firfl; View fupport that Adertion i yer,upon confulting the original Record more carefully, it

g Appendix, Numb. 34.h Titles of Honour, p. 678.

» Thinn’-f Adzocatc, and Anti-Advocate y M S- penes me, G. 2. p. 24 6 b.VVhidockV Reading on the Statute of Plwalities, M S.

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