* « Männer, and after the Fafhion ufed by Prelatesj

<f and every one of thefe Knighcs, on his Left-ihoul-“ der, had a double Cordon, or String of white Silk,“ to which white Taflels were pendent.”

This Paflage, it is granted, tho’ not eafily account-ed for, when'we confider Mr. Camderis profound Skillin Antiquities, yet, might have been the firft, thatoccurred to his Obfervation from our Hiftorians, print-ed in his Time, relating to the Bathing of Knights inthis Kingdom. But this being admitted, by whatRule of Argumentation could any Perfon, from thefeWords of Froiffart infor, that Knights of the Bath , hadtheir firft Inftitution at that Coronation; orfrom thatPeriod, commenced to be a diftind Order of Knight-hood.

An Order, in the large Senfe of the Word, is ofequivocal, and very indeterminate Signification ; it isattributed indifferently to every Degree of Knighthood jand feveral Records in the Appendix confeffedly termthat Knighthood, wherein Baths were prepared, a mi-litary Order, ordinem Militarem : But when we fpeakof an Order, in a ftrid, or more reftrained Senfe, ac-cording to the Definition, or rather, as I have chofento-dxprefs my (elf, the Defeription of it, in the Placeto which the Reader is here direded $ that is, if by anOrder, we underftand a Brotherhood, Fellowihip, or

j lniroänü . to the Regifler of the Garter, p. 65.

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