for feveral Years in that Quality, his Father not ha-ving taken care to perform the Conditions necefiaryto his Difeharge and Return$ yet, during the wholeTime of his Refidence, though fe> long protraded;he gave all poflible Proof, that he had, with a ftridNotion, a moft tender and powerful Senfe of Honour,and that no Temptation, or Opportunity could everinduce him to entertairt a Thought of falfifying hisPromife.

The next Extrad, to which I refer, is taken fromFroijfart n , wherein we have an Account of the Knight-hoöd conferred on the four Kings of Inland by Ri-chard the Second, aftcr they had performed their Vi-gils. The printed Copy reprefents thefe Kings as ßt-ting, on that Day, at King Richard ’s Table : But, ac~cording to a very beautiful 0 Manufeript-Copy öf oürHiftorian, curioufly embellißted with Limnings in thebrighteft Colours, thefe Iriß Potentates firved that Dayat the King’s Table ; though there is an obvious Me~thod, which may be propofed> for reconciling the feem-ing DifFerence between thefe two Accounts. TherC arerealbnable Grounds to conclude, that thefe Iriß Kings,upon their Appeärance at the Court of the King ötEngland, in order to take this Degree, might, in thfeQuality of Efejuires, accordirtg to the Formulary, fer-veup the firffc Diihes, and when they had the Charader

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