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A03144	The historie of that most famous saint and souldier of Christ Iesus; St. George of Cappadocia asserted from the fictions, in the middle ages of the Church; and opposition, of the present. The institution of the most noble Order of St. George, named the Garter. A catalogue of all the knights thereof untill this present. By Pet. Heylyn.	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1631 (1631)	STC 13272; ESTC S104019	168,694	376

proofe of which and that we may behold what excellent Peeres and Princes of our owne and other Nations have in all times successively beene chosen into this most noble Order wee have adjoyn'd a Catalogue of all Saint GEORGE'S Knights from the first institution of it till the present Which Catalogue I have here layed downe according as I finde it in the Catalogue of Honour published by Milles of Canterbury adding unto him such as have beene admitted since that publication Hereafter if this worke may ever have a second birth and that I have ability to nde or meanes to search into the publike Registers of this Order I shall annex to every of them the time of their Creation as wee have done in all of them since the first of Queene ELIZABETH THE FIRST FOVNDERS as they call them of the Garter EDVVARD the III. Of ENGLAND and FRANCE c. being the Chiefe or Soveraigne of it EDVVARD the III. King of England HENRY Duke of Lancaster PETER Capit. de la Bouche WILLIAN MONTACVTE Earle of Salisburie IOHN Lord Lisle IOHN BEAVCHMP Knight HVGH COVRTNEY Knight IOHN GREY of Codnor Knight MILES STAPLETON Knight HVGH WORTHESLEY Knight IOHN CHANDOS Knight Banneret OTHO HOLLAND Knight SANCHIO DAMPREDICOVRT Knight EDVVARD Prince of Wales THOMAS BEAVCHAMP Earle of Warwicke RAPH Earle of Stafford ROGER MORTIMER Earle of March BARTHOLM de Burgherst Knight IOHN Lord Mohun of Dunstere THOMAS HOLLAND Knight RICHARD FITZ-SIMON Knight THOMAS WALE Knight NEELE LORENGE Knight IAMES AVDLEY Knight HENRY ESME Knight WALTER PAVELY Knight Which Founders being dead these following were in the time of the said Edward the third elected in their places according as their stalls became vacant by the death of any of the others viz. RICHARD of Burdeaux Prince of Wales and after King of England of that name the second LIONELL Duke of Clarence IOHN of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster EDMOND of Langley Duke of Yorke IOHN Duke of Brittaine and Earle of Richmond HVMFREY de Bohun Earle of Hereford WI●LIAM de Bohun Earle of Northampton IOHN HASTINGS Earle of Pembrooke THOMAS BEAVCHAMP Earle of Warwicke RICHARD FITZ-ALAN Earle of Arundell ROBERT VFFORD Earle of Suffolke HVGH Earle of Stafford GVISCARD of Engolesine Earle of Huntingdon INGELRAM of Coucy Earle of Bedford EDVVARD Lord Despencer WILLIAM Lord Latimer REYNOLD Lord Cobham of Sterborough IOHN Lord Nevill of Raby RAPH Lord Basset of Drayton Sir WAL● MANNY Banneret Sir THOMAS VFFORD Sir THOMAS FELTON Sir FRANCIS VAN HALL Sir ALAN BOXHVLL Sir RICH. PEMBRVGE Sir THOMAS VTREIGHT Sir THOM. BANISTER Sir RICH. LA VACHE Sir GVY of Brienne RICHARD the II. KING OF ENGLAND and Soveraigne of the Garter Elected in his Time into the Order these that follow THOMAS of Woodstocke Earle of Buckingham and Duke of Gloucester HENRY of Lancaster Earle of Darbie and Duke of Hereford WIL. Duke of Gelderland WIL. Earle of Holland Hainault c. THO. HOLLAND Duke of Surrey IOHN HOLLAND Duke of Exeter THO. MOVVERAY Duke of Norfolke EDVVARD Duke of Aumerle MICHAEL DE LA POLE Earle of Suffolke WIL. SCROPE Earle of Wiltes WILLIAM BEAVCHAMP Lord Aburgevenny IOHN Lord Beaumont WIL. Lord Willoughby RICHARD Lord Grey Sir NICHOLAS SARNESFEILD Sir PHILIP DE LA VACHE Sir ROBERT KNOLLES Sir GVY of Brienne Sir SIMON BVRLEY Sir IOHN D'EVREVX Sir BRIAN STAPLETON Sir RIGH BVRLEY Sir IOHN COVRTNEY Sir IOHN BVRLEY Sir IOHN BOVRCHIER Sir THO. GRANDISON Sir LEVVIS CLIFFORD Sir ROBERT DVMSTAVILL Sir ROBERT of Namurs HENRY the IIII of that Name KING OF ENGLAND c. and Soveraigne of the Garter made Choice of HENRY Prince of Wales THOMAS of Lancaster Duke of Clarence IOHN Duke of Bedford HVMFREY Duke of Gloucester ROBERT Count Palatine and Duke of Bavaria THO. BEAVFORT Duke of Exeter IOHN BEAVFORT Earle of Somerset THO. FITZ-ALAN Earle of Arundell EDM. Earle of Stafford EM HOLLAND Earle of Kent RAPH NEVILL Earle of Westmerland GILBERT Lord Talbot GILBERT Lord Roos THO. Lord Morley EDVVARD Lord Powys IOH. Lord Lovell Edvv. Lord Burnell IOH. CORNVVALL Lord Fanhope Sir WIL. ARVNDELL Sir IOH. STANLEY Sir ROE VMFREVILL Sir THOM. RAMPSTON Sir THOM. ERPINGHAM Sir IOH. SVLBIE Sir SANCHIO of Trane HENRY the V. of that Name KING OF ENGLAND c. and Soveraigne of the Garter graced with the Order SIGISMVND King of Hungarie and Bohemia Emperour Elect. IOHN King of Portugall CHRISTIERNE King of Danemarke PHILIP Duke of Burgundie IOHN HOLLAND Duke of Exeter WILL. DE LA POLE Duke of Suffolke IOH. MOVVERAY Duke of Norfolke THOM. MONTACVTE Earle of Salisbury RICH. VERE Earle of Oxon. RICH. BEAVCHAMP Earle of Warwicke THOM. Lord Camoys IOHN Lord Clifford ROBERT Lord Willoughby WILLIAM Lord Bardolfe HENRY Lord Fitz-Hugh LEVVIS ROBSART Lord Bourchier HVGH STAFFORD Lord Bourchier WALTER Lord Hungerford Sir SYMON FELBRIDGE Sir IOH. GREY of Eyton Sir IOH. DABRIDGECOVRT Sir IOH. ROBSART Sir TRANK VAN CLVX of Germany Sir WILLIAM HARRINGTON Sir IOHN BLOVNT HENRY the VI. of that Name KING OF ENGLAND c. and Soveraigne of the Garter assumed into it ALBERT of Austria King of Bohemia Hungarie and Emperour of Germanie FREDERICK Duke of Austria and Emperour EDVVARD King of Poland ALPHONSO King of Arragon and Naples CASIMIRE King of Portugall EDVVARD Prince of Wales PET. Duke of Conimbria and HENRY Duke of Visontium both Sonnes to the King of Portugall The Duke of Brunswicke RICH. Duke of Yorke IOH. BEAVFORT Duke of Somerset EDM. BRAVFORT Duke of Somerset IASPER of Hatfeild Duke of Bedford IOHN MOVVBRAY Duke of Norfolke HVMPH STAFFORD Duke of Buckingham GASTON DE FOIX Earle of Longueville IOHN DE FOIX Earle of Kendall ALVARES D'ALMADA Earle of Averence IOHN FITZ-ALAN Earle of Arundell RICH. NEVILL Earle of Salisbury RICH. NEVILL Earle of Warwicke IOH. TALBOT Earle of Shrewsbury IOH. TALBOT Earle of Shrewsbury Sonne to the former IAMES BVTLER Earle of Wiltes WILL. NEVILL Earle of Kent RICHARD WIDDEVILL Earle Ryvers HEN. Viscount Bourchier Earle of Essex IOHN Viscount Beaumont IOHN Lord Dudley THO. Lord Scales IOHN Lord Grey of Ruthin RAPH Lord Butler of Sudeley LIONELL Lord Welles IOH. Lord Bourchier of Berners THOMAS Lord Stanley WILL. Lord Bonvill IOH. Lord Wenlocke IOH. Lord Beauchamp of Powys THOMAS Lord Hoo. Sir IOHN RATCLIFFE Sir IOHN FASTOLFE Sir THOMAS KYRIELL Sir EDVVARD HALL EDVVARD the IIII of that Name KING OF ENGLAND c. and Soveraigne of the Garter made Knights thereof FERDINAND King of Naples IOHN King of Portugall EDVVARD Prince of Wales CHARLES Duke of Burgundie FR. SFORZA Duke of Millaine FREDERICKE Duke of Vrbine HERCVLES Duke of Ferrara RICH. Duke of Yorke the Kings Sonne RICH. Duke of Gloucester IOHN MOVVBRAY Duke of Norfolke IOHN Lord Howard made afterwards Duke of Norfolke IOHN DE LA POLE Duke of Suffolke HENRY STAFFORD Duke of Buckingham IOHN NEVILL Marquise Montacute THOMAS GREY Marquise Dorset IAMES Earle of Douglas in Scotland WILL. FITZ-ALAN Earle of Arundell THOM. Lord Maltravers ANTH. WOODVILL Earle Ryvers WILL. Lord Herbert Earle of

Pembrooke IOHN STAFFORD Earle of Wiltes HEN. PERCY Earle of Northumberland IOHN TIPTOFT Earle of Worcester GALLIARD Lord Duras IOHN Lord Scrope of Bolton WALT. D'EVREVX Lord Ferrers WALT. BLOVNT Lord Montjoy WILL. Lord Hastings Sir IOHN ASTLEY Sir WILL. CHAMBERLAINE Sir WILL. PARRE Sir ROB. HARICOVRT Sir THOMAS MONTGOMERY RICHARD OF GLOVCESTER of that Name the third c. and Soveraigne of the Garter admitted these viz. THO. HOVVARD Duke of Norfolke THO. Lord Stanley afterwards Earle of Darby FRANCIS Viscount Lovell Sir IGHN COGNIERS Sir RICH. RADCLIFFE Sir THOM. BVRGH Sir RICH. TVNSTALL HENRY the VII of that Name KING OF ENGLAND c. and Soveraigne of the Garter admitted to this honour MAXIMILIAN Archduke of Austria and after Emperour IOHN King of Portugall IOHN King of Danemarke PHILIP of Austria King of Castile ALPHONSO Duke of Calabria and after King of Naples ARTHVR Prince of Wales HENRY Duke of Yorke and Prince of Wales after his Brother VEALDO Duke of Vrbine EDVV. STAFFORD Duke of Buckingham THOM. GREY Marquise Dorset IOAN VERE Earle of Oxon. HEN. PERCY Earle of Northumberland GEO. TALBOT Earle of Shrewsbury HEN. BOVRCHIER Earle of Essex RICH. GREY Earle of Kent EDVVARD COVRTNEY Earle of Devon HEN. Lord Stafford Earle of Wiltes EDM. DE LA POLE Earle of Suffolke CH. SOMERSET Earle of Worcester GERALD Earle of Kildare IOHN Viscount Welles GEO. STANLEY Lord Strange WILL. STANLEY the Lord Chamberlaine IOHN Lord Dynham ROB. WILLOVGHBY Lord Brooke Sir GILES D'AVBENY Sir EDVV. POYNINGS Sir EDVV. WIDDEVILE Sir GILBERT TALBOT Sir IOHN CHEYNIE Sir RICHARD GVILFORD Sir THOM. LOVELL Sir THOM. BRANDON Sir REGINALD BRAY. Sir RHESE AP THOMAS Sir IOHN SAVAGE Sir RICH. POOLE HENRY the VIII of that Name KING OF ENGLAND c. and Soveraigne of the Garter Chose in his Reigne CHARLES the fifth Emperour of Germany and King of Spaine FERDINAND Archduke of Austria and King of the Romanes FRANCIS the first King of France EMANVEIL King of Portugall IAMES the fifth King of Scotland HENRY FITZ-ROY Duke of Richmond and Somerset IVLIAN DE MEDICES EDVVARD SEYMOVR Earle of Hartford and after Duke of Somerset THOM. HOVVARD Duke of Norfolke CH. BRANDON Duke of Suffolke IOHN DVDLEY Viscount L'isle afterwards Duke of Norhumberland ANNAS Duke of Montmorancie HENRY COVRTNEY Marquise of Exeter WILL. PARRE Marquise of Northampton WILLIAM PAVVLET Lord St. Iohn of Basing after Marquise of Winchester HENRY HOVVARD Earle of Surrey THO. BVLLEN Earle of Wiltes WIL. FITZ-ALAN Earle of Arundell IOHN VERE Earle of Oxon. HENRY PERCY Earle of Northumberland RAPH NEVILL Earle of Westmerland FR. TALBOT Earle of Shrewsbury PHIL. DE CHABOT Earle of Newblanch Admirall of France THOM. MANNOVRS Earle of Rutland ROB. RATCLIFFE Earle of Sussex HENRY CLIFFORD Earle of Cumberland WILL. FITZ-WILLIAMS Earle of South-hampton THOM. Lord Cromwell Earle of Essex IOH. Lord Russell Earle of Bedford THOMAS Lord Wriothesley after Earle of Southampton ARTHVR PLANTAGENET base sonne of Edw. 4. Viscount L'isle WALT. D'EVREVX Viscount Hereford EDVV. HOVVARD Lord Admirall GEO. NEVILL Lord Abergevenny THOM. W●st Lord de la Ware THOM. Lord Dacres of Gillesland THOM. Lord Darcy of the North. EDVVARD SVTTON Lord Dudley WIL. BLOVNT Lord Montjoy EDVV. STANLEY Lord Monteagle WIL. Lord Sands HENRY Lord Marney THO. Lord Audley of Walden Chancellour of England Sir IOHN GAGE Sir HENRY GVILFORD Sir NICH. CAREVV Sir ANTHONY BROVVNE Sir THOM. CHEYNIE Sir RICHARD WINGFEILD Sir ANTH. WINGFEILD Sir ANTH. St. LEGER Lord Deputie of Ireland Sir IOH. WALLOP EVVARD the VI. of that Name KING OF ENGLAND c. and Soveraigne of the Garter ascribed into the Order HENRY the second King of France HENRY GREY Duke of Suffolke HENRY NEVILL Earle of Westm. FR. HASTINGS Earle of Huntingdon WILL. HERBERT Earle of Pembrooke EDVV. STANLEY Earle of Darby THO. WEST Lord de la Ware GEO. BROOKE Lord Cobbam EDVVARD Lord Clinton Admirall THOMAS Lord Seymor of Sudeley WILL. Lord Paget of Beaudesert THOM. Lord Darcy of Chiche Sir ANDREVV SVTTON alias Dudley MARY QVEENE OF ENGLAND c. and Soveraigne of the Garter assumed into the voide places PHILIP of Austria King of Spaine the Queenes Husband EMANVEL Duke of S●voy HENRY RATCLIFFE Earle of Sussex ANTH. BROVVNE Viscount Montacute WILL. Lord HOVVARD of Effingham WILL. Lord Grey of Wilton EDVV. Lord Hastings of Loughborow ELIZABETH QVEENE OF ENGLAND c. and Soveraigne of the Garter supplied the Vacant places of the Order with 1559. FREDERICK Duke of Wittenberge THOM. HOVVARD Duke of Norfolke 1559. ROB. DVDLEY Lord Denbigh and Earle of Leicester HENRY MANNOVRS Earle of Rutland WIL. PARRE Earle of Essex and Marq. of Northampton 1560. ADOLPHVS Duke of Holsatia 1561. GEORGE TALBOT Earle of Shrewsbury HENRY CARIE Lord Hunsdon 1563. AMEROSE DVDLEY Lord L'isle and Earle of Warwicke THOM. PERCY Earle of Northumberland 1564. CHARIES the Ninth King of France FRANCIS Lord Russell Earle of Bedford 1568. MAXIMILIAN King of Hungary and Bohemia Emperour 1570. FRANCIS HASTINGS Earle of Huntingdon WIL. SOMERSET Earle of Worcester 1572. FRANCIS Duke of Montmorency WALTER Viscount Hereford and Earle of Essex ARTHVR Lord Grey of Wilton EDM. BRVGES Lord Chandos FREDERICK King of Denmarke 1574. HENRY STANLEY Earle of Darby HENRY HERBERT Earle of Pembrooke 1575. CHARLES Lord Howard of Effingham and Admirall of England afterwards Earle of Nottingham 1579. IOHN CASIMIRE Count Palatine of the Rhene and Duke of Bavaria 1584. HENRY the Third King of France EDVV. MANNOVRS Earle of Rutland WIL. CECILL Lord Burghley WIL. BROOKE Lord Cobham HENRY Lord Scrope of Bolton 1486. HENRY RATCLIFFE Earle of Sussex 1588. ROBERT DEVREVX Earle of Essex Sir HENEY SIDNEY Lord President of the Marches Sir CHRISTOPHER HATTON Lord Chancellour 1592. GILBERT TALBOT Earle of Shrewsbury GEORGE CLIFFORD Earle of Cumberland 1593. HENRY PERCY Earle of Northumberland EDVVARD SOMERSET Earle of Worcester THOMAS Lord Burgh EDMOND Lord Sheffeild Sir FRANCIS KNOLLES Treasurer of the Houshold 1596. HENRY the fourth King of France and Navarre 1597. FREDERICKE Duke of Wittemberge THGM SACKVILL Lord Buckhurst afterwards Earle of Dorset THOM. Lord Howard of Walden afterwards Earle of Suffolke GEORGE CARY Lord Hunsdon CH. BIOVNT Lord Montjoy after Earle of Devon Sir HENRY LEA Keeper of the Armorie 1599. ROB. RATCLIFFE Earle of Sussex HENRY BROOKE Lord Cobham 1601. WILL. STANLEY Earle of Darby THOM. CECILL Lord Burghley after Earle of Exeter IAMES the first KING OF GREAT BRITAINE and Soveraigne of the Garter adorned that Noble Order with these Worthies viz. 1603. CHHRISTIERNE the fourth King of Denmarke HENRY Prince of Wales LEVVLS Duke of Lennox and afterwards of Richmond HEN. WRIOTHESLEY Earle of South-hampton IOHN ERESKIN Earle of Marre WILL. HERBERT Earle of Pembrooke 1605. VLRICK Duke of Holst HEN. HOVVARD Earle of Northampton 1606. ROB. CECILL Earle of Salisbury THOM. HOVVARD Viscount Bindon 1608. GEORGE HVME Earle of Dunbarre PHILIP HERBERT Earle of Montgomery 1611. CHARLES the Kings second Sonne after the death of his Brother Henry Prince of Wales THOM. HOVVARD

made the tutelarie Saint of Soldiers at what time he first began to be accounted so principall a Patron of Christianitie before we can descend unto particulars And first if we demand how our Saint George became to bee accounted the chiefe Saint of Soldiers we answere that he was himselfe a Soldier of chiefe ranke and qualitie and therefore in the superstitious times before us conceived to be most worthy to countenance that calling For which cause also it pleased the Church of Rome who then did what she listed to joyne with him in commission although perhaps not with equall power St. Maurice and St. Sebastian So witnesseth Baronius out of the Roman Ceremoniall De divinis officijs Romanam ipsam Ecclesiam ad expugnandos fidei hostes hos praecipuè martyres invocare consuevisse Mauritium Sebastianum Georgium Which Maurice and Sebastian also were both of them Soldiers of the same time with our St. George and both of eminent place in their severall Armies MAVRITIUS being one of the Chiefetaines of the Theban Legion slaughtered by MAXIMINIANUS in his expedition towards Brittaine SEBASTIAN a Commander of the first ranke Princeps primae cohortis under DIOCLETIAN This was the reason why they were first selected to take upon them the defence of militarie men Saint GEORGE as chiefe upon the earth in birth and honours so also generally reckoned by the men of Warre to bee of greater power than eyther of the other and therefore most devoutly prayed to Hence is it that the Poet MANTVAN calls him the MARS of Christians MARS being at the first some notable swash-buckler himselfe and afterwards the GOD of Soldiers in the opinion of the Gentiles Vt Martem Latij sic nos te Dive Georgi Nunc colimus As Rome did MARS so wee St. GEORGE doe honour thee And in another place Inclyte bellorum rector quem nostra Inventu● Pro Mavorte colit Thou famous President of Wars Whom we adore instead of MARS 2 Nor was St. George only reckoned as a chiefe Saint of soldiers but after and before the English tooke him to themselves esteemed a principall patron of the affaire of Christendome For as before I noted the Christians used to call upon him being so lessoned by their superstitious teachers as an advocate of victory and did implore his helpe ad expugnandos fidei hostes in all their Warres against the enemies of our religion as they did also pray unto St. Maurice and St. Sebastian though not so generally Hence is it that St. Marke St. Iames St. Davis St. Andrew and the rest being once chosen the Protectors of particular States and Countries were never importuned to take upon them the tuition and defence of any others It may be they were fastned unto those imployments as once the Tyrians chained the statua of Hercules their especiall Guardian to their Altars for feare he might be wonne to take part against them and give succour to their enemies But of St. George we finde not any such sufficient bond by which he is obliged either unto particular places or designes as one whom they thought good to leave at large that so hee might the better succour the afflicted parts of Christendome For which cause howsoever in the latter dayes hee was conceived to be a speciall fautor of the English yet have the Georgians and the Genoese alwayes esteem'd him as their Patron and by the German Emperours he hath beene made Protectour also of their military orders of which more hereafter How and on what occasion he came to have the generall patronage of Christianitie conferred upon him at the least as I conceive it I am next to shew first making roome for that which followes by a short but necessarie digression 3 After the yeare 600. the affaires of Christendome began in all places to decline the Westerne parts beginning to be over-spread by superstition the Easterne made a prey unto the Saracens who in their conquests laboured what they could to advance the sect of Mahomet By this meanes as they inlarged their Empire so did they also propagate the infinite impieties of that Impostour whose irreligion had the fortune not onely to be entertained by those poore wretches whom the Saracens had conquered but also to inveigle them by whom they were subdued For when the Turkes under the conduct of Tangrolipix had made themselves masters of the Persian Empire then in possession of the Saracens they tooke upon them presently the Law of that seducer as if Mahometanisme had beene annexed inseparably unto the Diademe Proud of this victory and litle able to conteine their active spirits in an obedient Peace at home they were employed in severall Armies and to severall purposes one of them under Cutlu-Moses who turned his forces on the Christian Empire the other under Ducat and Melech two kinsmen of the Persian Sultan who bent their strength against the Saracens of Syria and Damascus In this designe the issue prooved so answerable to their hopes that quickly they became possessed of almost all Armenia Media and the Lesser Asia inhabited in most parts of them then by Christians as of all Syria the Holy Land and therein of Hierusalem So that in all the East the Gospell of our Saviour was eyther utterly extinguished or his name celebrated onely in obscure and private places Religion being in this state the Christian Princes of the West most of them then in peace and amitie with one another joyntly and joyfully resolve upon the freeing of the miserable East from thraldome Perswaded thereunto piously by a Reverend Hermit whose name was Peter who had beene witnesse of those miseries which the Christians there endured and cunningly by Vrban of that name the second Pope of Rome who by employing such so many Princes in those remote Countries fore-saw a way to bring the Roman Prelates to their so-much-expected greatnesse The Princes of most note which put themselves into the action were Robert Duke of Normandie brother to Will. Rufus King of England Hugh brother to the King of France Godfrey of Bouillon Duke of Lorreine with his two brethren Baldwin and Eustace Tancred and Beomond two noble Normans of the Kingdome of Naples and he which for his spirit and magnanimity might have beene reckoned with the first Ademar Byshop of La Puy en Velay a litle territorie neere unto Auvergne in France the Popes Legate The Armie which attended them amounted to no lesse than 30000. fighting men the time of this their expedition an 1096. or thereabouts their fortune so succesful that they expell'd the Turks out of all Asia the lesse compelling them into the Easterne parts of their dominions Having no enemy at their backs they passed the streights of Taurus entring into Syria which they quickly mastered they sate them downe at last before the famous City of Antiochia A place of chiefe importance for the assurance of their new conquests and therefore very much desired 4 This famous City after a long

afterwards by meanes of friends and upon good excuse and reason by him alleaged in his defence as certainly he was a wise and valiant Captaine however in the stage they haue beene pleased to make merry with him he was restored unto his honour The third and last meanes of avoydance is by Cession Surrendrie the examples hereof also are but few This I am sure of not to make further search into it that Philip King of Spaine beeing offended with Qu. Elizabeth about the altering of Religion and thereby alienated from the English delivered backe to the Lord Vicount Mountague the robes and habit of the Order wherewith he was invested on his marriage with Qu. Mary By which his Act as the Historian hath observed Cum Anglis amicitiam visus est prorsus eiurare he seemed to breake off utterly all amitie and friendship with the realme of England 'T is true indeed King Philip being once resolved to renounce his Order was of necessitie to send backe the habit For so it is ordained amongst them that even such of them as depart this life are to take care especially that the Garter bee restored unto the Soveraigne by him and by the Company of the said Order to be disposed of to some other Examples in which kinde are infinite to bee related Windsore the fairest and most stately of our English Pallaces was by King Edward who adorned and beautified it conceived most fit to bee the Seate of that most excellent Order which he had established An house indeed worthie of such inhabitants and therefore worthily honoured by them For here they alwayes leave in readinesse the mantle of their Order to be layed up for them for any suddaine chances which might happen to require their presence at Saint GEORGES Chappell or in the Chapter-house Here doe they solemnize the Installations of their Brethren and performe their obsequies And lastly such a reverend regard they owe the place that if they come within two miles of it except that they be hindered by some weighty and important businesse they alwayes doe repaire thereto and putting on their mantles which are there in readinesse proceed unto the Chappell and there make their Offerings Nor doe they go at any time from out the Castle if their occasions bring them thither till they have offered in like manner I should now from the Knights and from the Order proceed unto the Patron of it but that I first must meet an errour by some reputed as a Law and Statute of the Order and so delivered by tradition from hand to hand viz. that those of this Heroicke Order are by their Order bound Vt mutuo se iuvent that they defend each other at all extremities and assaies But doubtlesse there is no such matter Onely the Knights are bound not to ingage themselves in the service of a forreine Prince without licence from the Soveraigne nor to beare Armes on one side if any of their Fellowes bee already entertained upon the other This is the ground of the report for Omnis fabula as the Mythologists affirme fundatur in Historia Yet hereupon Alphonso Duke of Calabria sonne unto Ferdinand King of Naples knowing that Charles the eighth of France threatned the conquest of that Kingdome did with great importunitie request to be elected of this Order as accordingly hee was Conceiving that if once he were Companion of that Order the King of England as the Soveraigne thereof would be obliged to countenance and aide him in his Warres against the French Which hopes as they were built upon a false and ruinous ground so is it not to bee admired if they deceived him Polydore Virgil who before accounted mutuall defence to be a Statute of this Order doth in this passage overthrow his owne building Concluding this relation of Alphonsus and his investiture with this note Iampridem ea consuetudo ferendi auxilij obsoleverat that long agoe that custome had beene out of use He might as well have said and more agreeable unto the truth it had never beene 10 Having thus spoken of the Statutes of this most noble Order whereby they are and beene govern'd wee will descend in the next place to give you notice of their Patron which after the opinion of those times they chose unto themselves Of which thus Pol. Virgil in his English Historie Ord● verò est D. Georgio ut bellatorum praesidi dicatus quare equites quotannis diem ei sacrum multis ceremonijs colunt This Order is saith hee dedicated unto Saint George as the chiefe Saint and Patron of the men of Warre whose Festivall they therefore solemnely observe with many noble Ceremonies But what need Polydore have beene produced unto this purpose since from the Charter of the Institution we have a testimony more authenticall For there King Edward tells us that to the honour of Almighty GOD and of the blessed Virgin our Ladie St. Mary and of the glorious Martyr Saint GEORGE Patron of the right noble Realme of England and to the exaltation of the holy Catholicke Faith hee had ordained established created and founded within his Castle of Windsore a Company of twenty sixe noble Knights to bee of the said most noble Order of Saint GEORGE named the Garter 'T is true indeed that Polydore hath well observed with how great Ceremonie and solemnitie the Knights doe celebrate this Feast Attending both on the Vespers and the day it selfe at divine Service attired in the most rich and stately Mantles of the Order and gallantly adorned with their most rich sumptuous Collars which wee call of S. S. the Image of Saint GEORGE garnished with pearles and precious stones appendant to them In which their going to the Church and in their setting at the Table they goe and set by two and two every one with his fellow which is foreagainst him in his stall And if by chance it happen that his fellow be not present he doth both goe and set alone I say if so it chance to happen for all the fellowes are obliged to be there personally present without a just and reasonable cause acceptable to the Soveraigne or his Deputie and signified by speciall Letters of excuse Other the pompe and rich magnificence of this Feast I forbeare to mention as utterly unable to expresse it The minde is then best satisfied in such things as this when the eye hath seene them But I proceed unto St. George Of which their Patron and of the noble Order it selfe the Marriage of the Tame and Isis a Poeme written some yeeres past doth thus descant Auratos thalmos regum praeclara sepulchra Et quaecunque refers nunc Windesora referre Desine Cappadocis quamvis sis clara Georgi Militia procerumque cohors chlamydata intenti Cincta periscelidi suras te lumine tanto Illustret tantis radijs perstringet orbem Vt nunc Phrix●um spernat Burgundia vellus Contemnat cochleis variatos Gallia torques Et cruce