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Knights j they recite, that Orders were given for pro-viding, fCapam intus vigilandum , an Outer-garnient 5for that, doubtlefs, is the 1 Signification of the Term,to defend them from thecold Air of the Night 5 andwe learn alfo from the fame Accounts, that this u Gar-ment was of a mixed, or murray Colour.

The Creation, upon the zoth Day of January, inthe * *twentieth Year of Edward II, was appointed, bythe Command of the King’s eldeft Son 5 between whichTime, and the Renunciation of his Father, only fiveDays intervened ; and therefore the Knights, for whomRobes were then prepared upon this Mandate, are con-cluded to have been Knights of the Bath , who attend-ed on the y Son’s Coronation, on the firft Day of Fe*bruary following. Thefe Orders difcover a farther Par-ticular, that Cloth of Gold, grounded upon diapredSilk, was alfo then delivered; which, in the Accountsof fucceeding Reigns, is often termed Racamatz , andSigaßon.

The next * Inftrument, to which I refer, bears datefive Days after, being the Day of Edward the Third hisAccefiion to the Throne; at which Time, he had nothimlelf been knighted: It bears the exprels Title proMilitia Regis , for the King’s Knighthood, and contains

/ Appendix, Numb. 16.t Du Frefne GJoff v. Capa.

u Appendix, Numb. 16, 20- x Append- Numb. 20.y Dugd. 1 Vol. Baron, p. 142. of the Mortimers, and in feveral otjjer places.

* Appendix, Numb. 21.

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