and right well-beloved Cousin and Councellor the Marquess of Winchester our high Treasurer of England NUM LXXXI A Warrant for Delivery of the Collar and George to Edward Prince Palatine Ex lib. vocat The Book of Warrants in the Iewel-house Charles R. OVR will and pleasure is that you deliver to the use of our entirely beloved Cousin Edward Prince Palatine one of the Companions of our most Noble Order of the Garter one Collar of Gold containing 26 Garters with Red Roses enamelled in the midst of them and 26 Knots the Collar weighing 30 Ounces Troy weight As also one rich George on horseback with a Dragon to be fastned and pendant thereto And for so doing this shall be your Warrant Given under the Signet of our said Order at our Court at Whitehall Z this 17. of June in the 13. year of our Reign By his Majesties the Soveraign's special command De Vic. To our trusty and well-beloved Servant Sir Gilbert Talbot Master of our Jewel-house NUM LXXXII A Warrant for the Delivery of the Collar George and Garter for Charles King of Sweden Ex eod Lib. Charles R. WHereas we have named and appointed our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousin and Counsellor Charles Earl of Carlisle our Ambassador extraordinary to our good Brother the King of Sweden and our trusty and well-beloved Henry St. George Esq one of our Officers at Arms to invest our said good Brother lately Elected Knight of our most Noble Order of the Garter with the whole Habit Ensigns and Ornaments of the same These are to will and require you to deliver unto our said Cousin and our said Officer at Arms or to either of them the great Collar George and Garter and what other things you may have provided on our former Warrant for that occasion And this with a Note under their or either of their bands mentioning the particulars to be delivered by you and acknowledging the Receipt of them shall be your sufficient discharge Given under our Signet Manual the 29. of November 1668. By the Soveraign's special command De Vic. To our trusty and well-beloved Sir Gilbert Talbot Master of our Jewel-house and our other Officers of the same NUM LXXXIII A Warrant for Delivery of the Collar George and Garter for Iohn George Duke of Saxony Ex Libro praed Charles R. WHereas we have named and appointed our trusty and well-beloved Sir Thomas Higgons Knight our Envoye extraordinary into Germany and Tho. St. George Esquire one of our Officers at Arms to carry to and invest our dear Cousin the Elector of Saxony late Elected Knight of our most Noble Order of the Garter with the whole Habit Ensigns and Ornaments of the same These are to will and require you to deliver unto the said Sir Thomas Higgons and Tho. St. George or to eitehr of them the great Collar George and Garter and what ever other things you may have provided on our former Warrants for that occasion And this with a Note under their or either of their bands mentioning all the particulars so delivered by you and acknowledging the Receipt of them shall be your sufficient discharge Given under our Signet manual this 29. of November 1668. By the Soveraign's special command De Vic. To our trusty and well-beloved Sir Gilbert Talbot Master of our Jewel-house and our other Officers of the same NUM LXXXIV A Receipt given to the Iewel-house upon delivery of the Ensigns of the Order for Charles King of Sweden Ex Lib. vocat The Day-Book in the Iewel-house p. 321. DEcemb 31. 1668. Delivered unto Henry St. George Esq one of his Majesties Officers at Arms by virtue of his Majesties Sign Manual bearing date the 29. of November last past viz. Imprimis 1 Onix George of the Order set round with 38 large Rose Diamonds 4 smaller Rose Diamonds on a Loop to the said George Also one Garter of the Order set with 202 Rose Diamonds in the Letters 6 between the words and 24 about 4 Ilot boles Also on the Buckle of the said Garter 11 great Rose Diamonds and 10 small ones and on the Tabb 3 large Rose Diamonds and 23 smaller Also one Collar and George of the Order Gold enamelled weight 30 ounces 10 penny weight 6 grains with three Cases of Crimson Velvet fringed with Gold Lace All which is acknowledged to be received by me Hen. St. George NUM LXXXV Another Receipt given for the Ensigns of the Order sent to Iohn George Duke of Saxony Ex Lib. vocat The Day-Book in the Iewel-house p. 324. FEbr 26. 1668. Delivered to Sir Thomas Higgons according to his Majesties Warrant bearing date the 29. of Novemb. 1668. Imprimis One Collar of the Order of the Garter consisting of 21 Roses and 21 Knots poize 30 ounces 16 penny weight As also one rich Aggot George set about with 32 rich Diamonds and three Sparks in the Ring Also a rich Diamond Garter all the Letters of Diamonds and at the Buckles end 9 fair Faucet Diamonds and at the Loop end 9 very fair Faucet Diamonds and -8 smaller Diamonds Also one enamelled George poize one Ounce All these I have received out of his Majesties Iewel-house with Cases to them Tho. Higgons NUM LXXXVI A Warrant to provide Necessaries for Transportation of the King of Sweden's Robes Ex Collect. W. le N. Cl. THese are to pray and require your Lordship that you cause to be provided with all speed these Necessaries following for the Transportation of the King of Swedens Râ—bes and other things belonging to the Order of the Garter namely one pair of fine Holland Sheets of two breadths and a half and three ells long Two Trunks for the packing up and transportation of the Robes Collar and Georges and two Sweet Bags of Taffaty to lay amongst the said Robes for the doing whereof this shall be your Lordships Warrant Whitehall this 27. of April 1627. To the Right Honorable the Earl of Denbeigb Master of our Great Wardrobe NUM LXXXVII A Warrant to provide several particulars for the Investiture of the Duke of Saxony Book of Warrants in the Grâ—at Wardrobe commencing at Michaelmas 1667. fol. 25. THese are to signifie unto your Lordship That it is his Majesties express pleasure That you do provide or cause to be provided in part of the Habit of the most Noble Order of the Garter which his Majesty is now sending unto the Elector of Saxony Knight Elect of the said Order and towards the furnishing of the Officer of Arms who is to go upon that Employment both with a Robe for himself and such other necessaries as are to be used for his Majesties honor and service on that occasion the following particulars One Black Velvet Cap and Feather such and of the same fashion as the Knights of the Order do wear on St. George's day when the Feast is kept and solemnized One Girdle and Hangers of Crimson Velvet One large Cushen of Blue and Purple Velvet with Buttons Fringe
of Richard Duke of Gloucester confirm'd and deliver'd to the Dean and Chapter the Mannors of Bentfieldbury in the County of Essex Knapton in the County of Norfolk and Chellesworth in the County of Suffolk who thereupon granted among other things that they and their Successors should cause yearly for ever a Mass to be daily celebrated in this Chappel for the good estate of the said Duke and of Anne his Dutchess while they lived and their souls when dead as also for the souls of their Parents and Benefactors Sir Thomas St. Leger Knight sometime Husband to Anne Dutchess of Exeter Sister to King Edward the Fourth founded a Chantry of two Priests who in the middle Chappel situate on the North side of the Church were ordain'd to pray for the healthful estate of King Edward the Fourth and his Queen and Cicely Dutchess of York the Kings Mother while they lived and for their souls when dead as also for the Soul of Richard Duke of York the good estate of the said Sir Thomas and Richard Bishop of Salisbury then living and after their decease for their souls and the soul of Anne Dutchess of Exeter The Foundation of this Chantry and the Covenants between Sir Thomas St. Leger and the Dean and Colledge are dated the 20. of April anno 22. E. 4. By the last Will of King Edward the Fourth a Chantry was ordained to be founded of two Priests to serve at his Tomb to whom was appointed an exhibition of twenty Marks yearly apiece They were called King Edward's Chantry Priests The Chantry of Thomas Passche one of the Canons of this Chappel was founded for a Priest to pray daily for his Soul and the Soul of William Hermer another of the Canons there as also for the good estate of Master Iohn Arundel and Master Iohn Seymer Canons and of Master Thomas Brotherton and their Souls after they should depart this life There was another Chantry Priest assigned to pray for the Souls of the said Passche and Hermer and of Iohn Plumer Verger of the Chappel and Agatha his Wife which devotion was appointed to be perform'd at the Altar on the North side of the new Church and the setlement thereof bears date the 18. of March anno 9. Hen. 7. The first of March anno 12. H. 7. Margaret Countess of Richmond obtained license from the King that she or her Executors might found a Chantry of four Chaplains to pray for her Soul the Souls of her Parents and Ancestors and all faithful Souls departed This Celebration was to be performed in a place neer the East part of the new work of the Chappel And the 18. of Iuly anno 13. H. 7. the Dean and Canons granted that the Countess or her Executors should erect such a Chantry in the Chappel as is before mentioned The Chantry of William Lord Hastings founded of one Priest to pray for his Soul the Souls of the Lady Katherine his Widow and of Edward Lord Hastings his Son and Mary his Wife after their death The Chappel wherein this Service was celebrated is that on the North side of the Choire about the middle thereof where the Body of this Lord lies interred The Ordination is dated the 21. of February anno 18. H. 7. On the North side of St. Georges Chappel stands a little house built for the habitation of this Chantry Priest having over the Door cut in stone the Lord Hastings's Arms surrounded with a Garter Charles Somerset Lord Herbert created afterwards Earl of Worcester was buried in the South Chappel dedicated to the Virgin Mary at the West end of the Church where he ordain'd a secular Priest to say Mass every day and to pray for the Souls of him and his first Wife Elizabeth the Daughter and Heir of William Herbert Earl of Huntingdon Lord Herbert of Gower who also lies there interred Adjoining to the House built for the Lord Hastings's Chantry Priest is another like Building erected for this Chantry Priest and over the Door thereof now to be seen is the Founders Arms within a Garter cut also upon stone The Foundation of this Chantry is dated the 30. of Iuly anno 21. H. 7. To these we shall add the pious Foundation of the House called the New Commons erected over against the North Door of the Body of St. George's Chappel by Iames Denton one of the Canons of the Colledge sometimes Dean of Lichfield anno 11. H. 8. for the lodging and dieting such of the Chantry Priests Choristers and stipendary Priests who had no certain place within the Colledge where to hold Commons in but were constrained daily to eat their Meals in sundry houses of the Town this House he furnished with proper Utensils for such a use the whole charge amounting to 489 l. 7 s. 1 d. and for all which the Choristers were desired by him in the Statutes he ordained for their Rule and Government to say certain Prayers when they entred into the Chappel and after his death to pray for his and the Souls of all the faithful departed In this Chappel of St. George there were heretofore several Anniversaries or Obits held and celebrated some of them as they are entred down in an Account of Owen Oglethorp Treasurer of the Colledge for the year commencing the first of October anno 38. H. 8. and ending the last of September anno 1. E. 6. inclusive we will here remember October November 2. Sir Thomas Sentleger Knight 3. William Bewster Canon 6. Iohn Wygrym Canon 5. Iohn Plomer Verger 8. William Edyngton Bishop of Winchest 10. Iohn Brydbroke Canon 9. King Edward the Fourth 13. Thomas Pashe Canon 16. Rich. Beauchamp Bishop of Salisbury 20. Robert Vere Earl of Oxford 22. William Cock Canon 27. Thomas Beauchamp Earl of Warwick  29. Iohn Chapman Vicar Prospect of the Cancellor Screen from the West PROSPECT OF THE CANCELL from the East PROSPECT OF THE CHOIRE from the West PROSPECT OF THE CHOIRE from the East December January 3. Ralph Wyndesor 3. Katherine Queen of England 14. Iohn Howden Canon 8. King Edward the Fourth 30. Richard Duke of York 10. Anne Devereux 31. Tho. Beauford Duke of Exeter 11. Iohn Chambre Canon  12. Anne Dutchess of Exeter  14. Geoffry Aston February March 4. Richard Raunds Canon 1. Richard Smith 21. William Mugge Custos 4. Knights of the Garter 28. Roger Lupton Canon 5. Walter Devereux  10. Richard Welles Canon  19. King Henry the Fourth  24. Henry Duke of Lancaster April May. 3. William Butler Canon 11. King Henry the Seventh 5. Geoffry Wren Canon 21. King Henry the Sixth 6. King Edward the Fourth  19. Robert Ravendale Canon  20. Anne Dutchess of Exeter  21. Iohn Bean and his Wife  June July 2. Iohn Stokes Canon 9. King Edward the Fourth 7. Anne Queen of England 12. Anne Dutchess of Exeter 8. Edward the Black Prince 13. William Harmer Canon 11. William
and two Then the Cap and Feather carried by Mr. St. George's Son Next Mr. St. George carrying the rest of the Habit and the Ensigns of the Order Then Sir Thomas Higgons After him the Duke of Saxony in his Surcoat his Sword girt about him On each side and closing the Rere were his Guard of State richly habited with Partizans in their hands the Staves covered with Blue Velvet and set thick with gilt Nails In this manner they passed through divers stately Rooms entertained with several sorts of Musick until they came to the great Room where there was also excellent Musick of several sorts with Kettle-Drums and Trumpets placed in a high Gallery at the lower end which entertained them as soon as they entred In this Room was two States of Crimson Velvet the one at the upper end for the Soveraign with a Chair and a Foot-stool and an Escotcheon of the Soveraign's Arms within a Garter having his Stile underneath set over the Chair the other on the side of the Room on the right hand of the Soveraign's State for the Duke with an Escotcheon of his Arms within a Garter and his Stile underneath and on the left hand two Chairs the one for Sir Thomas Higgons the other for Mr. St. George Being entred this Room as they passed from the lower end three obeysances were made to the Soveraign's State going up then the Duke going to his State and there standing Mr. St. George placed the Robes on a Table on the Duke 's right hand which being done Sir Thomas Higgons and Mr. St. George did go to their Chairs opposite to the Duke's on the left hand of the Soveraign's State making their obeysances to it as they passed by then the Duke sate down and they did the like Then being entertained with Musick for a little while they rose from their Seats and making their obeysances as before to the Soveraign's State as they passed by it and repaired to the Duke who standing up they placed themselves on each side of him being in this posture Mr. St. George took up the Commission and holding it in his hand Sir Thomas Higgons made a Speech to the Duke relating to the Antiquity and Nobleness of the Order declaring how many Emperors Kings and Foreign Princes had been Companions thereof since its institution and in relation to the election of his Electoral Highness of the splendor and greatness of his Family c. which having ended Mr. St. George gave the Commission to Sir Thomas Higgons who presented it to the Duke which he caused to be read with a loud voice by his Secretary and then received it again and delivered it to Mr. St. George After this Mr. St. George took the Garter and with the assistance of Sir Thomas Higgons buckled it about the Duke's left Leg then they put on the Mantle the Hood upon the right shoulder and last of all the Collar and George Thus being fully invested Mr. St. George spoke to the Duke as followeth Ayant investi vostre Altesse Electorale avec tous les habits les autres ornaments du tres-noble Ordre de la Iartiere Je souhaite toute sorte de prosperité de grandeur de longue vie au tres-hault tres-puissant tres-illustre Prince Iean George le Second par la grace de Dieu Due de Saxe de Iuliers Cleves des Montz Archimareschall Prince Electeur du Saint Empire Landgrave de Thuringe Margrave de Misnie de la haute basse Lusâ—re Burgrave de Magdeburg Conte de la Marche Ravensperg Seigneur in Rauenstein Chevalier du tres-noble Ordre de la Iartiere which being ended the Trumpets and loud Musick sounded The Musick ceasing Sir Thomas Higgons congratulated his Electoral Highness's Investiture whereupon one of his Council made a Speech in Latine declaring his Electoral Highness's great obligation to the King of Great Britain how highly he esteemed the Order and his Majesty's particular kindness to him c. and concluded with his thanks to Sir Thomas Higgons and Mr. St. George Then Mr. St. George took the Cap and Feather and presented it to the Duke which he put on and they returned in the same order as they came to the Chamber from whence they brought him Mr. St. George's Son bearing his Train and there they left him and retired being attended to their Apartments by the Duke's Servants About half an hour after the Duke sent his Servants again for them they found him in the same Room where they left him in the Habit of the Order and in the same manner as before they passed to the Room where the Duke's Dinner was upon the Table and they dined with him that day the Duke wearing the Habit of the Order and Mr. St. George his Robe After Dinner they attended him back to the same Room and there took their leaves and departed Vpon Sunday the 18. of April the Duke 's chief Chamberlain came to Sir Thomas Higgons first and after to Mr. St. George and presented each of them with a Chain of Gold and the Electors Picture set in Diamonds hanging at it and also to each of them a Bason and Eure he also presented Mr. St. George's Son with a little Iewel of Diamonds and invited them to Dine with the Duke and the Master of the Ceremonies presented all their Servants On Monday the 19. of April Sir Thomas Higgons and Mr. St. George took their leaves of the Duke to return for England and dined that day with him and that Evening the Duke's Secretary brought them a Proxie under the Duke's hand and Seal to the Earl of Bath to be installed for him at Windesor The next morning being Tuesday the 20. of April Sir Thomas Higgons and Mr. St. George having before hired a Boat to carry them down the River of Elbe to Hamburgh the Dukes Coaches and Servants attended them to their Boats and there all but two of them took their leaves of them those two that remained had laid in provision and attended and defrayed them by the Dukes command as long as they travelled in the Dukes Territories which was within two German Miles of Magdeburgh and there they took their leaves Sir Thomas Higgons and Mr. St. George parted at Hamburgh the former to go for England by the way of Holland the other by shipping Vpon Sunday the 16. of May Mr. St. George arrived first in England and that day Fortnight Sir Thomas Higgons and when Mr. St. George kissed his Majesties hand at his return he was pleased to confer the honor of Knighthood upon him with the same Sword the Duke of Saxony gave him By way of Corollâ—ry to the present Section it will be necessary to give an account of those Transactions relating to this most Noble Order which past during the interval of the late Rebellion and Usurpation The present Soveraign by reason of his frequent removals from several places beyond the Seas where his rebellious Subjects had forced him to
wear the Garter and Collar but at some certain times in the year at his own pleasure That if he were not in place convenient to go to hear Mass on St. George's day he should cause a Priest to say it in his presence Not to be obliged if busied in weighty Affairs to wear the Garter Collar or whole Habit of the Order on St. George's day longer than during Divine Service Nevertheless he promised if he could not then wear it for a whole day together he would willingly wear it upon some other solemn day within the compass of the year And much to the same purpose is that Proviso added in the Oath of Emanuel Duke of Savoy taken the 6. of November an 1. 2. Pb. Mar. viz. To observe the Statutes of the Order so far forth as they might be conveniently observed by him and were not inconsistent with those things wherein he had formerly bound himself by Faith and Oath yet not to be obliged to wear the Garter and Habit of the Order but when he should see good and have convenience so to do and never else Of another nature were the Exceptions which Francis the First of France procured to be admitted into the Oath taken by Adrian Tercelin his Proctor an 19. H. 8. viz. To observe the Statutes of the Order of the Garter so far as they were consistent with and not contrary or prejudicial to the Statutes of the Order of St. Michael and other Orders which his Principal had before taken of other Princes And like to this was the Oath of Charles the Ninth adding only an exception of any thing contrary to his royal dignity which was received from him in the Church of the Colledge of St. Iohns at Lyons in France the 24. of Iune in the morning after Mass an 5. Eliz. namely To observe the Statutes of the Garter so far forth as they were not contrary or derogatory 1. to his greatness Royal 2. the Statutes of St. Michael nor 3. to any other Oath which he had before taken Neer to these were the Provisoes allowed in the Oath made by Maximilian the Emperor at Vienna the 4. of Ianuary an 10. Eliz. To observe the Statutes so far forth as they were not contrary or derogatory to his 1. Greatness and Majesty Imperial nor to the 2. Statutes of any other Order nor any 3. Oath which he had before taken But by the French King Henry the Third because now our Church was reformed the Exception of the Catholick Religion was thought of consequence to be gained from the Soveraign and thereupon the Proviso in the Oath which he took in the Chappel of the Augustins in Paris an 27. Eliz. runs thus so far forth as the Statutes of the Order should not be found contrary 1. to the Catholick Religion his 2. Greatness and Majesty Royal and 3. the Statutes and Ordinances of the blessed Holy Ghost and St. Michael And this was the form of the Oath word for word which Henry the Fourth of France took at Roane an 38. Eliz. And when Monsieur de Chastes came over four years after to be Installed for him viz. an 42. Eliz. his Oath then taken referred to the form of the foresaid Oath which Henry the Fourth himself had before made and upon the Conditions agreed on between the Soveraign and his Master Such like Exceptions were allowed in the Oath of Gustavus Adolphus and Charles Kings of Sweden To observe the Articles of this Order in all things which should not be any way derogatory to the Religion by him profest his Dignity and Majesty Royal or contrary to any other Articles or Orders Frederick the Second King of Denmark at his reception of the Habit of the Order took in effect the usual Oath and to observe the Statutes of the Order so that they were not derogatory to those he had before sworn unto or other conditions whereunto he had been formerly obliged And yet I find that his Proctor an 25. Eliz. obtained a larger latitude both in point of Religion and particular Interest being admitted to take the Oath with these reservations so far forth as the Statutes of the Order concerned the said King and should be agreeable to the Word of God And the same Oath was taken by Sir Philip Sidney Proctor to Iohn Count Palatine of the Rhyne But Henry Ramel Proctor to Christian the Fourth King of Denmark an 3. Iac. R. took it with the salvo of those Conditions and Covenants wherein his Master had been already pre-ingaged But the Princes of the Empire have allowed them another manner of Exception as appears by that Oath of Frederick Duke of Wirtemberg an 1. Iac. R. viz. To observe the Statutes so far as they were not inconsistent with the Constitutions of the sacred Roman Empire and faith which he owed to the Roman Emperor and his Empire And with a like Salvo did Frederick Prince Palatine of the Rhyne personally installed at Windesor an 10. Iac. R. take this Oath viz. Salvis sacri Imperii constitutionibus But as touching the Proxies of such Strangers not Soveraign Princes but Subjects the form of their Oath is usually framed by the indulgence and dispensation of the Soveraign with just limitations not only relative to their obligation to the Statutes of any other Order which they had before accepted or any Oath formerly taken but sometimes to the fidelity and allegiance which they owe to their Soveraign Lord and Prince And hereupon the Earl of Newblank's Deputy an 25. H. 8. was sworn to the observation of the Statutes so far forth as they were not contradictory to the Statutes of the Order of St. Michael his Principal being one of the Fraternity of that Order After the Oath hath been administred to a Strangers Proxie with such or the like exceptions before set down the two Knights-Commissioners pass up with him into the higher row of Stalls and so to that assigned for his Principal where being arrived they take the Mantle from Garter and lay it upon the Proctor's left arm with the Scutcheon of St. George uppermost for so was it ordered to be born in a Chapter held at the Feast of St. George the 28. of May an 23. Car. 2. and to be a standing Rule for the future and the Proxies to both the King of Sweden and Duke of Saxony did so observe it the same day at and after Evening Service The next thing that follows is the act and ceremony of Installation which is breifly thus first the Commissioners who conducted the Proxie into the Choire jointly embrace him next the Proxie makes his double Reverence and lastly the Commissioners according to the custom of Installations set him down in his Principal 's Stall where he hath used to remain during the time of Divine Service But by the foresaid Order in Chapter held the 28. of May an 23. Car.
for Ioyous mayess thou bee To see thy Kyng so florethe in Dignetye This Realme a Seaforte stoode in greate Iupardie When that Noble Prince deceased King Edward Which in his Dayes gate honore full nobly After his decesse nighe hand all was marr'd Eich Regione this Land dispised mischefe when they hard Wherefore Rejoyse for joyous mayst thou be To see thy Kynge so floreth in high dignetye Fraunce Spayne Scoteland and Britanny Flanders also Three of them present keepinge thy Noble Feaste Of St. George in Windsor Ambassadors comying more Eich of them in honore bothe the more and the lesse Seeking thie grace to have thie Noble begesse Wherefore now Rejoise and joyous maisse thou be To see thy Kynge so florishing in dignetye O Knightly Ordere clothed in Robes with Gartere The Queen's grace and thy Mother clothed in the same The Nobles of thie Realme Riche in araye Aftere Lords Knights and Ladyes unto thy greate same Now shall all Embassadors know thie Noble Name By thy Feaste Royal nowe joyeous mayest thou be To see thie King so florishinge in dignety Here this day St. George Patron of this Place Honored with the Gartere these of Chevalrye Chaplenes synging processyon keeping the same With Archbushopes and Bushopes beseene nobly Much people presente to see the King Henrye Wherefore now St. George all we pray to thee To keepe our Soberaine in his dignetye At the Grand Feast held at Windesor an 4. Car. 1. the Queen her Ladies attending was conducted into St. George's Hall a little before the Soveraign's Stiles were proclaimed to see the Soveraign and Knights-Companions sit at Dinner At the Feast there celebrated by the present Soveraign in the 15. year of his Reign the Soveraign's Stiles were not proclaimed as many times heretofore until the second Course was set upon the Table but it was by the Soveraign's special direction because he expected the Queens coming into the Hall to see the state and glory of the Feast who staying something long and the second Course being already brought to the lower end of the Hall and the Soveraign seeing it stand there gave command it should be set upon the Table but that the proclaiming of his Stiles should be yet forborn Immediately after the Queen attended with her Ladies entred St. George's Hall and passing up the middle came to the Soveraign's Table where she was seated on his right hand Hereupon Garter accompanied by his Fellow Officers of Arms proceeded up the Hall and with usual Ceremonies proclaimed the Soveraign's Stiles in Latine French and English In like manner when the Duke of York was Installed at the Grand Feast an 13. Car. 2. his Dutchess desirous to see the order and grandeur of it was brought into the Hall assoon as the Soveraign and Knights-Companions were set and passing to the upper end of the Table where the Duke sat she stood on his left hand all Dinner while And it appears to be no new thing that the Queens of England have been desirous to behold the magnificence of this solemn Feast since we also find it recorded an 11. H. 8. that a little while before the second Course was carried in Queen Katherine and her Ladies came to the Gallery at the end of the Hall which was nobly prepared for her to see the honorable Services and Ceremonies there performed But besides the Queens of England the Ambassadors of Foreign Kings and States have counted it an honor to have view of this Grand Feast and amongst others we find the French Ambassador was an 15. Iac. R. conducted into the Banquetting-house at Whitehall by Sir Iohn Fenet then Assistant Master of the Ceremonies about the middle of Dinner where he placed himself at the left hand of the Soveraign and having staid there about an hour he descended to the Knights-Companions Table and there saluted the Prince and the rest of the Knights of the Order as he passed along before them and so departed At the Grand Feast kept at Whitehall an 19. Iac. R. to the sight of which the Polonian Ambassador Osalinskie Count Palatine of Sindomerskie having received an invitation he went about the middle of Dinner to see and salute the Soveraign the Prince and Knights-Companions as they sat at the Table and thence retired into the Council Chamber where he and the Arch Dukes Agent Van Mab had been before treated The next following year on the 22. of May which was the day assigned for holding the Grand Feast at Whitehall the Prince being the Soveraign's Lieutenant supplied his place in the Banquetting house at the Table whither Don Carlos de Coloma the Spanish Ambassador and Philip a second Son to the Lantgrave of Hesse sent hither on a negotiation of his Father were conducted the Spanish Ambassador standing at his Highness right hand and the young Lant-grave at his left most part of the Dinner An. 3. Car. 1. the Ambassador of Denmark Paul Rosenkrantz and Ioachimi and Monsieur Catz the Ambassadors and Deputies of the States were conducted altogether in the time of the second Course to the Soveraign's Table and there presented themselves at that side next the Soveraign's left hand and after passed down along before the Knights-Companions with their respects bestowed personally on each Knight as they deemed fitting and then returned by the way they entred But in this last instance where there were more Ambassadors than one and from several Princes a Question arose whether they were to perform this Ceremony of seeing the Feast and presenting themselves at the Dinner singly and alone or jointly and together insomuch that the Danish Ambassador was of the mind to perform it by himself which course was approved by the Lord Chamberlain But the States Ambassador Ioachimi telling him that he and the French Ambassador had been joint spectators at a Feast two or three years before at which time he was employed a Commissioner hither the Ambassador of Denmark came in along with the others Lastly for we would not be over tedious with Instances when the Grand Feast was held at Whitehall an 19. Car. 2. the Swedish Ambassador had not only a place assigned him in the Choire at the North side of the Altar to behold the Solemnities on the Feast day in the Chappel and when the Grand Procession passed into the Court he also went out at the little door on the North side of the Chappel up to the Greencloth Chamber whence he had a fair prospect of it and thence returned to behold the Ceremonies of the Offring But when the Soveraign was at Dinner he entred the Banquetting-house from the Privy Gallery and passing to the Soveraign's Table stood there on the left hand of the Queen thence he went to salute the Knights-Companions at their Table beginning with his Highness the Duke of York and at all these places was attended by Sir Charles Cotterell Master of the Ceremonies In
hic Gustavus operâ illius uti voluerit in sopiendis dissidiis inter se Magnum Muschoviae Ducem Idem verò Muschoviae Dux cum patre Patriarchâ quem Muschovitae Sanctissimum appellant tanti aestimavit Regis nostri bellicas rationes ut eos haud puduerit eodem uti Ductore Quorum quidem Principum benevolentia in Regem Gustavum tam vehementèr apparuit ut cum iidem accepto nuncio de Lipsensi pugnâ immensos triumphos in ejus honorem per Imperium Muschoviticum instituissent ab omni aevo tale quid in ejusdem visceribus contigisse vix ac ne vix quidem sit animadversum Et quae res alia Christianissimum Galliae Regem Ludovicum XIII commovit ut huic Heroi arctissimo foederis amicitiae vinculo copulaeretur quo Austriacae Domus omnibus Regibus ac Principibus potentiam reformidandam comprimeret afflictae Germaniae succurreret nisi quod eum fortissimum ad tantam Provinciam obeundam accommodatissimum esse suo etiam suffragio comprobaret totique terrarum Orbi declararet Foedera quae Rex noster inierat cum praepotentibus Ordinibus Belgii cum Principibus Rebus publicis Germaniae quid aliud testantur quam summam in eo extitisse animi magnitudinem robur convictum ut interim silentio involvam Bethlemi Gaboris Transylvahiae Helvetiorum quorundam Italiae Principum in eundem propensionem singularem Magnus ille Praecopiensium Tartarorum Chamus triginta hominum millia in usum Regis nostri se ex finibus suis educturum obtulerat si iis uti voluisset Fando denique exprimi non potest quomodo incomparabilis hujus Regis fama per Othomancum Imperium fuerit pervagata Acquisivit Suecis ac Gothis hâc ipsâ ut eos à contemptu aliorum Populorum vindicaverit effecerit simul ut pro fortissimis militibus ab ipsis hostibus agniti celebrati fuerint Tot itaque tanta cum fuerint Magni Gustavi Regis ornamenta cum nomen ejusdem per infinita terrarum spatia inclaruerit cum denique facta illius tot hostibus debellatis ac prostratis Suethici nominis gloriam ubique circumtulerint nonne dignissimus judicabitur cui hic honos hic splendor conferri debuerit Verum enimvero cum Deo visum sit invictissimum hunc Regem cujus parem septentrio nunquam vidit bellatorem Triumphatorem perpetuum rebus humanis eripere eumque Ordinis Garterii Statuta jubeant ut post excessum unius cujusque signa ornamenta remittantur in mandatis idcirco mihi dedit Serenissima mea Regina ut non solum Legibus praescriptis satisfacerem verum etiam moram excusarem Agnovit abundè Serenissima sua Regia Majestas eum gente Suecorum universâ Serenissimae vestrae Regiae Majestatis in deferendis hisce honoribus affectionem inusitatam benevolentiam singularem nunquam intermittet procurare quae ad vestrum Britannicae gentis splendorém amplificandum conducent Inter alia sacra sua Regia Majestas exoptat à Deo immortali ut quemadmodum hic Ordo ab exiguis initiis in maximum dignitatis culmen ascendit ita etiam per longissima annorum spacia foelicissimo duraturo incremento ad omnem posteritatem roboretur conservetur propagetur When the Ambassador had done speaking Garter delivered each particular Ornament to him which he forthwith presented to the Soveraign who put them into the Chancellors hands and he having received them in answer to the Ambassadors Oration made this other in French Le Roy mon Maistre Soverain de l' Ordre de la Jartiere m' a commandé de vous dire qu'il recoit de vostre main avec fort grand regret ces Enseignes de l' Ordre Elles renouuellent à sa Majesté luy font resouuenir la grand perte qu'il a faicte en la personne du Roy de Suede son bon frere Il estoâ—â— Prince dont l'amitié estoit fort chere à sa Majesté comme celuy qui pour la rendre plus estroicte avoit monstré un desir affectioné d'estre receu au nombre des confreres de cet Ordre Durant la vie de ce grand Roy vostre Majesté sa Majesté a fait une grand digne estime de sa personne à l'esgal de son merite de ces vertues qui furent vrayement Royales depuis sa mort sa Majesté a fait le mesme de sa memoire Et a fin que la posterité peult aussi prendre cognoissance de l'amitié affection qui a esté entre sa Maejesté ce grand Prince le Roy a donné un commandement expres qu'aux Archives de l' Ordre sa memoire fust conservée au rang des plus grands des plus valereux Princes qui l'ont devancez qui ont rendu par tant de Siecles cet Ordre si Auguste C'est Monsieur le Sommaire de ce que j'avois a vous dire de la parte du Roy mon Maistre le Soverain de l' Ordre pour ce qui est des aultres confreres principalement de Messeigneurs les Chevaliers icy presents sa Majeste m'a donné permission de vous dire de leur part qu'ils regrettent avec le Roy leur Maistre la perte d'un si grand Prince comme a esté le vostre tascheront pour le dernier debvoir qu'ilz doibvent à sa vertu de rendre à sa memoire autant de respect d'honneur qu'ils eussent volontiers rendu à sa personne Et pour mon particulier la coustume qui est observée en telles occasions me commandoit de dire quelque chose à la louange de ce grand Roy qui estant confrere de l' Ordre est mort victorieux entre les armes Mais quand je considere que vous l'avez desja si bien faicte par vostre belle oraison qui a esté par tout remplie d'autant de verité que d'eloquence qu'il me seroit impossible d'en parler apres sans faire tort à moy mesme sans grand prejudice à une si haulte vertu j'ay pensé doncques qu'il seroit convenable tant pour le Subject que pour mon devoir de laisser entierement à la renommée ce qui m'est tellement impossible d'exprimer en paroles This Speech being ended the Chapter broke up and the Soveraign departed in the order he came thither having first Knighted Sir Iames Skijtte the Ambassadors Son Sir Iohn Krue Sir Gustavus Banir and Sir Gabriel Oxensterne who were of his followers But the Ambassador and the two Earls Conductors returned in the same order as they came to the Council-Chamber and there took leave And in May following the said Sir Iohn Skytte junior whom I find stiled Baron of Buderof and Colonel of a Regiment of Scots in Sweden was sworn a Gentleman of the Soveraign's Privy-Chamber extraordinary After the Chapter was ended the Soveraign commanded the Iewels to be delivered to the Master of
other persons to them instituted this Order who before they took upon them the Habit of Religion assumed to themselves the Letter Thau for the Badge or Ensign of their Order Yet Alfonsus Ciaconius makes this Order more ancient affirming that Gaston and Guind whom Baronius calls Gerin instituted it before the year of our Lord 1092. The Order of the Constantinian Angelick Knights of St. George in Greece but now in Italy 13. We shall be somewhat large in the account of this Order because we have met with little of it besides what is delivered by Ioseph Micheli Marquez a Spanish Writer in his Tesoro Militar de Cavalleria from whom And. Mendo hath collected all he saith of it as also for that it appears he was Vice-Chancellor thereof which makes us presume he might be enabled to give a fuller and more particular account of it to the world than others and to say truth the History of it set down by him is large enough Nor do we call in question the authority of his attestations from the time of Angelus Flavius Comnenus and the Confirmation given this Order by Pope Leo the First under the Rule of St. Basil which perhaps should be understood as they were Monks rather than Knights But our Author not content with an original of that Age which if granted to him will make this Institution elder than either the Knights of the Sepulchre Hospitalars or Templars and consequently high enough to be one of the first military Orders in Christendom must needs derive a formal Institution Rules and Laws from Constantine the Great and vouch for it an Inscription not mentioned by any other in the Capitol at Rome From which account of his though it appears little better than a fabulous story grounded at best upon some uncertain Tradition and in several things smelling of novelty we shall nevertheless extract what is most material to our purpose This ancient and as our Author calls it the first Military Order in Christendom took beginning from the Emperor Constantine the Great and from him was entituled the Military Order of Constantine the Emperor It was called also Angelical because the Cross with this Inscription In hoc signo vinces was shewed from Heaven to that Emperor by an Angel and thence they of the Family descended from him among whom were the Great Masters of the Order took the name de Angelis As to the description of this Cross and the form thereof Eusebius may be consulted who in the Life of Constantine not only affirms that this Emperor himself vouched the truth of this Miracle to him with an Oath but describes the Figure thereof which the Emperor gave directions to be made of Gold and precious Stones according to the Pattern he had seen in the Skie and thence-forward caused the Figure of this Cross to be carried before his Army instead of the golden Standard formerly used and to be engraven upon the Armour of the Legionary Soldiers He also reports that upon Constantines triumphal entrance into Rome after his Victory over Maxentius he erected many Crosses with Inscriptions to indear the Sign thereof into all mens affections and amongst the rest commanded his own Statue to be placed in the chiefest part of the City holding a Banner of the Cross with the following Inscription engraven below it HOC SALVTARI SIGNO VERO FOR TITVDINIS INDICIO CIVITATEM VESTRAM TYRANNIDIS JVGO LIBERAVI ET S.P.Q.R. IN LIBERTATEM VINDICANS PRISTIN AE AMPLITVDINI ET SPLENDORI RESTITVI This Order had also the Epithet Golden adjoin'd because that instead of the Collar of Gold which the ancient Emperors his Predecessors used to give in reward of Virtue and military Service this Emperor gave a Collar of Gold composed of these three Characters A x Ω at which was fastned a Cross like that which appeared to him and thereunto the Image of St. George to confirm which saith our Author there is to be seen but we much doubt in the Capitol at Rome a Marble whereon are armed Knights engraven and an Inscription speaking thus Constantine the Great Emperor after he was cleansed of his Leprosie by the means of sacred Baptism thus created Golden Knights with the Cross for defence of the Christian name He further informs us that Constantine elected fifty illustrious Grandees of his Empire to be Knights of this Order to whom he gave the Standard of the Labarum and likewise a Collar of Gold to which the Figure of the Labarum and a Cross were dependant together with several Constitutions and Laws and that he instituted this Order with the consent and approbation of Pope Sylvester As also that it was confirmed by Pope Leo the First whose Bull for assigning to the Knights thereof the Rule of St. Basil dated the 20. of Iuly anno Domini 456. Prince Alexius Angelus being then Great Master he transcribes at large That it received further confirmation and approbation from the Popes Iulius the Third Calixtus the Third Pius the Second Sixtus the Fourth Innocent the Eighth Paul the Third Sixtus the Fifth Clement the Eighth Pius the Fifth Gregory the Fifteenth and Vrban the Eighth And whilst it flourished in Greece was confirmed and augmented with large Priviledges by divers succeeding Grecian Emperors namely Leo the First Isaac Angelus anno Dom. 1191. whose Diploma this Author also gives us dated the 13. of Sept. in the year aforesaid and of his Empire the Seventh by Michael Paleologus anno 1294. by Isaac Angelus anno 1295. and lastly by Ferdinand the Second Emperor of Germany at Ratisbone anno 1630. who recommended to his Catholique Majesty the restauration of this Order because those who had been Great Masters thereof were allied to him and of the Family of Angelus Flavius Comnenus which recommendation was sent to that King by the then Great Master Don Iohn Andrea Angelo Flavio Comneno The Great Masters of this Order have their chief Seat and Convent now at Brianno a Town nigh to Venice the Dignity yet continuing in the Line of Angelo Flavio Comneno howbeit among the Priviledges granted by the Emperor Isaac Angelus one is That if the Family of Angelus Flavius Comnenus should be extinguished the Collared Knights may elect from among themselves a Great Master Among the many Prerogatives granted to this Order by the Imperial Priviledges and Papal Bulls we shall mention a few by which may be understood something of the grandeur thereof to wit that the Great Masters are Commensales Pontificum and have the priviledge of sitting at the Table with the Pope by whom they are defended and supported as Benefactors to the Church and Founders of the Lateran Cathedral in Rome They are persons of great note and authority in that they are subject to no Prince and therefore have the power of coining Money They give titles of Counts Princes and such others and of Reverend to their own Fraternity They
a Chapter of this Order in Madrid the 16. of April anno 1600. which ended the 30. of November following In which it was ordained that the Book Intituled La Regla y Establecimientos de la Cavalleriae de Santiago del Espadae c. should be printed This Book contains the Institutions whereby the Knights of the Order are to be governed together with all the Statutes Laws Rules and Ceremonies appertaining thereunto and now in use and at this Chapter many of the former Laws were abolished others amended and some new added The Order of Knights of St. Saviour in Aragon 15. About the year of our Lord 1118. was this Order erected by Don Alphonso called Emperor of Spain King of Navarr Aragon Leon Castile and Toledo who chose out of those Spanish and French Nobility that assisted him in his Wars against the Moors a certain number whereof he formed this Society and to the end he might be the better enabled to drive the Moors out of Saragosa and the whole Territory of Aragon he engaged them by this Honor to pursue the War against them to the utmost of their power Favin seems to place the Institution of this Order to the year 1120. but that was the year of King Alphonso's great Expedition against the Moors whom he vanquished and destroyed and for which Victory he had the Title of Conqueror given to him besides these Knights were Instituted upon design to engage with this King in that War of whose assistance he had not so great need as to give Institution to them if he had before overcome the Moors Some may possibly take this Order to be rather Military than Religious but if it be considered that these Knights succeeded the Templars in Montreall being by King Alphonso established in that place and had a Rule of living somewhat conformable to the Knights Templars save only the priviledge to marry which Rule Io. Mariana a Spanish Author of very great credit saith expresly was the Cistertian and for that Ios. Mich. Marquez another Spanish Writer informs 〈◊〉 that they profest conjugal Chastity and Obedience and were obliged to support the holy Church and Christian Faith against the Moors we need not scruple to place them in the ranks of Religious Knights Their Habit was a White Mantle on the breast whereof they wore a Red Cross Ancree but A. Mendo saith it was the Figure of our Saviour At length the like Fate attended this Order as did the Knights of St. Iames Alcantara and Calatrava for the Moors being driven out of Spain and the chief end for which they were instituted ceasing their rich Commanderies were at length united to the Crown The Order of Knights d'Avis in Portugal 16. Don Alphonso Henriquez first King of Portugal took from the Moors in the year of our Lord 1147. the City of Evora and to strengthen this Garrison he sent thither several gallant Commanders who assumed the Title of Knights of St. Mary of Evora as well from putting themselves under the protection of our blessed Lady as from the place where they were first seated Their first Great Master was Don Fernando de Monteiro Not long after they came to be called Knights d' Avis from a Castle of that name situate on the Frontires of Portugal which being conquered from the Moors by the said King Don Alphonso he gave it to Fernando de Yannes Master of Evora in the year 1161. but Fr. de Rades saith it was 1181. to which Castle he and his Brethren forthwith transplanted themselves from Evora This Order was confirmed by Pope Innocent the Third anno 1204. in the Reign of Sancho the First Son to King Don Alphonso under the Rule of St. Benedict and therefore in some Papal Bulls the Order is called of St. Benedict d' Avis but others say this Order had confirmation anno Dom. 1162. by a power which the Bishop of Hostia Legat in Spain for Pope Alexander the Third gave to Io. Zerita Abbot of St. Io. Tarroca The Knights profess Conjugal Chastity and Obedience In the year of Christ 1213. Don Rodrigo Garcez de Assa then seventh Master of Calatrava gave to the Great Master and Brethren Knights d' Avis their two Fortresses in Evora and some other lands possessed by them in the Kingdom of Portugal upon which Donation they submitted themselves to the Rule Statutes Visitation and Correction of the Order of Calatrava and their Successors but in the time of Don Iohn of Portugal natural Son of Pedro the Eighth King of Portugal seventh Great Master d' Avis after he had gained the Victory of Aljubarrato against Don Iohn the First of Castile he commanded this Order to cast off their acknowledgments to that of Calatrava which they thereupon did and afterwards refused to receive Don Gonsalo Nunez de Guzman Master of Calatrava who went to visit them Hereupon the Order of Calatrava complained to the Council of Basil who decreed that this Order d' Avis should continue subject to that of Calatrava and receive their Visits and Reformation to which purpose a Bull issued which yet remains preserved in the Archives of Calatrava but the Portugueses never submitted to it albeit those of Calatrava to preserve their preheminence have still nominated Visitors Nay afterwards when that Crown fell into the hands of Philip the Second King of Spain this Order d' Avis did nevertheless remain governed according to the Statutes of Portugal nor did the Council of the other three Orders of Castile take upon them to proceed in any Cause where this Order was concern'd The Badge of this Order is a Green Cross Flory such as the Knights of Alcantara wear and said to be given them by Don Pedro but before they used the like Cross with those of the Order of Calatrava two Birds being added at the foot thereof in allusion to the later name given to this Order as appears from the ancient Seal The Royal Council of Portugal make examination of the Extraction of such as are to be admitted into this Order that is of the Fathers and Grand-fathers Gentility both of the Fathers and Mothers side The manner of giving the Habit and making profession is agreeable to that of the Knights of Calatrava The Order of Knights of the Wing of St. Michael in Portugal 17. Don Alphonso Henriquez King of Portugal in whose Reign the Order d' Avi◠was instituted being very much opprest by Albara the Moor King of Sevil raised an Army to free his Country and being ready to give Battel he commanded all his Soldiers in a devout manner to address themselves to their particular Saints for the obtaining of good success himself imploring St. Michael the Archangel to whom he was greatly devoted When the Battels were joined St. Michael the Archangel appeared on the Kings right side and fought against the Moors
Alcantara make always their protestation against it and so this matter rests still undecided After this pretension of being exempted from obedience to the Order of Calatrava Benedict the Thirteenth one of the Anti-Popes changed their Badge into a Cross Flory vert in the year of our Lord 1411. and this they wore upon the left shoulder of their Scapulary for the Badge of their Order The Examination of the Candidates and in what manner they receive the Habit is related at full by Ioseph Micheli Marquez The Catholick Kings Don Fernando and Donna Isabella having about three years before obtained the Administration of the Order of Calatrava for their lives had an eye also upon this of Alcantara and therefore endeavoured that at the first time the Mastership thereof should fall vacant to gain it likewise with the like Title of Administrator to avoid several inconveniences that had hapned to the Crown of Castile when the Master of Alcantara did confederate with the King of Portugal Hereupon in the year of our Lord 1492. they made their address to Pope Innocent the Eighth that he would reserve to himself the provision of the supreme Dignity of this Order whensoever it became vacant either by the death or renunciation of the then Master Don Iohn de Cuniga or after any other manner Upon this address the Pope did accordingly reserve the disposing thereof as was desired and then gave it in Administration to the said Kings that they two should govern this Order under that Title until such time as his Holiness should provide a Master A little after Pope Innocent dyed and Alexander the Sixth succeeded who at the like supplication of these Kings confirmed and of new granted what his Predecessor had granted them before Upon which anno 1494. they treated with Don Iohn de Cuniga for the renunciation of his Mastership yet with condition to reserve to himself all the Rents of the Masters Table that he held in that part of Serena to which he consented Whereupon he resigned and surrendred his Dignity of Master of this Order into the hands of the Pope which the Bishop of Valencia received by Commission back from him and gave the Possession thereof in administration to the said Catholick Kings After this manner it was that these Kings succeeded in the Administration of the Mastership of Alcantara in the year of our Lord 1494. which they held during their lives But it was not long e're Pope Adrian the Sixth annexed this Mastership together with those other of St. Iames and Calatrava to the Royal Crown of Castile for ever as hath been before observed Knights of Trugillo or Truxillo in Spain 20. Ioseph Micheli Marquez professeth that it had been his great endeavour to satisfie himself about the Foundation of this Order notwithstanding which neither by information from the Natives of the City of Trugillo a Town situate in Estremadura in Spain nor otherwise from History could he understand when or by whom it was erected Evident it is these Knights were in being in the year of our Lord 1227. though it be unknown how long before they had their beginning But because it is found in some slight memorials of the Order of Alcantara That Don Arias Perez Gallego elected Master of that Order in the year before mentioned took Trugillo from the Moors and there placed a Fraternity or Brotherhood of Knights and Priests who lived after the manner of a Convent therefore it is presumed that they were no other than of the Order of Alcantara Now it is certain that there was a Convent and Order of the Fraternity of Trugillo but it is not so certain that these were of Alcantara It rather seems to be the opinion of Fr. Rades y Andrada that these had been some other and a distinct Order of Knighthood by it self which he collects from a Donation of Lands that King Don Alonso the Ninth gave them some years after viz. in the Aera of Caesar 1233. of the Towns of Trugillo Sancta Cruz Zuferola Canaba and Albala in which it appears that several years before the time of Don Arias there were Brothers or Knights of Trugillo It is not unlikely therefore that this Order might be incorporated into that of St. Iulian de Pereyro and by this means the Order of Alcantara pretend these Towns to be theirs which in the Reign of King Don Alonso the Ninth of Castile and King Don Fernando of Leon were taken by force of Arms from the Moors and given to the Fraternity of Knights who kept their Convent in Trugillo Hieronymus Romanus saith that these Knights were of noble descent and that no man was admitted into this Order unless he first made proof of his Gentility But there is not any Writer that gives an account what was the Ensign or Badge of their Order It is guessed by Marquez that their Institution obliged them to be neer the person of the King and upon every martial Expedition that he undertook to attend him armed and well provided maintaining always two Horses and Servants to be in readiness such for services The Order of Knights of Calatrava in Castile 21. This ancient Order of Knighthood was instituted in Castile and took beginning under the Reign of Don Sanchio the Third and appellation from the Castle Calatrava being a Frontire both of Castile and Toledo which Castle the Moors took upon their Victory over Don Rodrigo King of Spain anno Dom. 714. The word is compounded of Cala signifying in Arabick a Castle and of the Spanish word Travas which signifies Manacles Gives or Irons to fasten about the feet and wrists of Captives for with such as these the Moors lockt up and fettered the Christians whom they held Prisoners in that Castle After its recovery from the Moors who had held it above 400 years it was given by Don Alphonso surnamed the Emperor of Spain to the Knights Templars of whose virtue that Age had a great opinion to be made a Bulwark against the Inrodes of the Moors being the very Key into the Kingdom of Toledo but they no way able to hold it withdrew their Garrison and what with the Knights Templars deserting it and the approach of the Moors all others were disheartned from accepting the place although the foresaid King Sanchio Son of Don Alphonso the Emperor had caused it to be proclaimed at his Court that whosoever would take upon them the defence thereof to them he would freely give it and to their Heirs for ever At length one Don Raymond native of Barcelona formerly a Knight of great renown then Abbot of the Monastery of St. Mary de Fitero of the Cistertian Order in the Kingdom of Navarr by the advice of Diego Velasquez of the same Order being then at Court accepted of the Kings proffer and took upon him the fortifying and maintaining this Castle and
Clement the Eighth in the fifth year of the Reign of this King Iames as is manifest from several authentick testimonies collected and alledged by Alphonsus Remon in his History of this Order The end of its Institution and the Profession and Obligation of the Knights was in effect the same with that vowed by King Iames in his Captivity to wit to gather Alms and to go in person to redeem Christian Slaves who either by Piracy the chance of War or other sad accident had fallen into the hands of the Moors This work prospered so well that Pedro Nolasco being first sent into the Kingdom of Valentia to make redemption of Captives redeemed four hundred within the space of six years after the Foundation of the Order This Pedro Nolasco was by the Founder constituted the first General or Head of the Order but as concerning the person that gave the Habit to him there are these three opinions First That it was by the hands of King Iames the Founder Secondly That Rerengario Pallovasino Bishop of Barcelona gave it Thirdly That he received it from Raymond de Penafort all which our Author sets down but there determines nothing only seems inclinable to the first opinion as most rational because the King was Founder and was so called by the blessed Virgin in the Vision and for that the Order it self was at first composed meerly of Laymen and wholly military and so declared by the Popes Boniface the Eighth and Clement the Fifth Besides their Laws are in favour of those that are of this opinion and exclude out of this Act judicially Kingly all Ecclesiastical ones and by the same reason the Bishop for saith the Canon of their Law A Priest ought not to make Knights But afterwards in another place he absolutely concludes that the King himself gave the Habit to Nolasco from the evidence he exhibits out of a Letter which King Don Pedro the Fourth sent to Pope Innocent the Sixth Such a like Habit as was given to Nolasco was also prescribed to the first Knights viz. a Coat and Scapular of a common sort of coarse White Cloth Their Coat was garnished with Cordons and Ribbons wherewith they fastned it about their necks and from the upper end thereof issued a Cap that covered half their head The Monks wore their Coats and Scapulars reaching down to their feet but those of the Knights were much shorter and the form of their Coat or rather Mantle and Cap was the same as they now wear When the Government of the Order became both spiritual and temporal as well the Knights as Monks were commanded by order of Chapter to keep the manner and form of their Habit apart according to the intention of the first appointment In the time and upon request of Gulielmo de Bas the second General of this Order King Iames the Founder by his Diploma dated at Saragosa the 15. of Iuly anno 1251. granted unto him and all the Fraternity of the Order That they should wear upon their Scapulars an Escotcheon of Aragon viz. Or four Pales Gules and above that the White Cross of the Church of Barcelona in a Red Field which two Coats being joined together per Fess in one shield were so born for sometime but afterwards came to be encompassed with a Border The Knights wore their Escotcheon of Arms sixt on their Scapulars but the Monks on their Mantles and both before upon their Breasts The Founder by his Diploma dated at Valentia the 14. of March anno Dom. 1254. granted particular Priviledges to the Order which he confirmed by another royal Instrument dated at Lirida the third of March anno 1275. Besides these Royal Grants this Order received approbation from the Papal See namely from Pope Gregory the Ninth in the eighth year of his Papacy on the day of St. Anthony the Abbot who prescribed to the Master and Fraternity the Rule of St. Augustine It was afterwards confirmed by Alexander the Fourth as appears by a Bull of his wherein he granted them several Indulgences and dated at Naples the 10. of April in the first year of his Papacy These Knights professed conjugal Chastity and Obedience to their Superiors In time this Order also which was at first solely under the Government of Knights came to be as well Spiritual as Temporal and at length fell into the power of the Monks and Priests For the Knights and Priests falling at variance about the election of a General of their Order upon the death of Arnoldo Rosiniol their seventh General who died anno 1317. the Knights having chosen Berengario Hostales and the Priests Raimundo Alberto they appealed to the Pope Iohn the 22. then holding the Chair who it seems the 17. of November in the year aforesaid declared That the Order seeming inclinable to be governed after the manner of Monks he thought it convenient for them to have a Master General which should be a Priest and that for the future no Lay-man should be elected General and so determined the controversie on the behalf of the Priests This Judgment gave the Knights so great discontent that one of them being Kinsman to the Governor of the new erected Order of Montesa offered to bring over to that Society all the Knights of Merced being then threescore in number which being accepted of he did so and from henceforth they became incorporated with the Knights of Montesa So that ever since the whole Fraternity have been only Priests and no Lay or Military person among them and therefore Andr. Mendo reckons this Order among those that are extinct The Master General is also a Priest and hath his residence at Barcelona by the Decrees of Popes Clement the Fifth and Iohn the 22. Raymond de Penasort the Founder's Confessor called also Raymond of Barcelona because it was the place of his Birth who had a powerful hand in the Institution of this Order and devised the Statutes lived neer to the age of an hundred years he was canonized for a Saint and the 7. of Ianuary appointed for his Anniversary by the Bull of Pope Clement the Eighth On the 12. of Iuly anno 1664. the approbation of the Colledge passed for making the 29. of Ianuary the Anniversary of Petro Nolasco Confessor the other great assister and first General of the Order The Office appointed for that day may be seen in the Missale Romamum printed lately at Paris in the large Volume This way of Canonizing holy men by the Popes is said to have been first used by Leo the Third anno Dom. 803. who then solemnly Canonized Suibert Bishop of Werden To conclude the charitable and pious work for which this Order was erected hath been carried on from the time of its Institution and managed by the Fraternity thereof with all religious care and faithfulness very great sums of Money being
Order of St. Maurice anno 1572. and constituted this Duke Grand Master of both shortly after by his Bull dated the 13. of November in the same year he united the Order of St. Lazarus to that of St. Maurice for their greater honor and thereby ordained that this new Institution should be thenceforth called the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus He also constituted the said Duke and his Successors Dukes of Savoy Grand Masters thereof and obliged them to furnish out two Gallies for the service of the Papal See to be imployed against Pyrats Upon this Union permission being given by the last mentioned Bull to assume a new Habit the Knights of this Order had assigned them a Gown of Crimson Tabby with wide sleeves a long train and edg'd about with White Taffaty as also a Cordon having a Tassel of White and Green fixed to the Collar thereof The Badge of this Order is agreeable to the form engraved in the Plate set before this Chapter to wit the Green Cross of St. Lazarus charged in the heart with the White Cross of St. Maurice which the Knights wear either in a Gold Chain or Silk Ribbon the Colour being at their own choice This double Cross was granted to be the Ensign of this new Order by another Bull of the said Pope Gregory given at Rome the 15. of Ianuary 1573. In which year to wit in the Month of April Duke Emanuel in pursuance of this Union and new Foundation assembled all the Knights in the City of Nice where meeting he was by them received and acknowledged for their Grand Master and took the Oath recorded by Sam. Guichenon Afterwards this Duke did erect two fair Houses or Convents for the Knights of this new Order to inhabit in the one at Nice and the other at Turin and with the Popes approbation bestowed all the Lands and Revenues formerly belonging to the Order of St. Lazarus lying within his Territories upon them So that at this day both the Orders of St. Lazarus and St. Maurice being united rest under the Patronage of one Grand Master and chief of the Order namely the Duke of Savoy whose title used in all Affairs relating to this new instituted Order is as followeth Totius Religionis Militiae Sanctorum Mauritii Lazari Betleem Nazareth Hierosolymitan Ordinis Sancti Augustini Conventuum Hospitalium Domorum Praeceptoriarum atque piorum locorum omnium citra ultra Mare cis trans Alpes per universum Orbem Humilis Generalis Magnus Magister Knights of Loretto 43. Sixtus Quintus instituted this Order anno Dom. 1587. but Ios. Micheli placeth it in the year before for which he erected the Church of our Lady at Loretto into a Cathedral and a Bishops See and gave the Knights for Ensign the Image of our Lady of Loretto hung in a golden Chain The splendor of this Order continued but a while yet is it not quite extinguished The Order of Knights of the blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel 44. Though the Grand Mastership of St. Lazarus and the Commanderies thereunto belonging lying within the Dominions of all Christian Princes were conferr'd upon Emanuel Philebert Duke of Savoy by Pope Gregory the Thirteenth as hath been before remembred yet the Duke did not gain the investiture of the Commanderies lying in France being opposed by King Henry the Third whereupon some Knights of that Order refusing to join with their Fellows under the obedience of the Duke maintained themselves in that Kingdom until the Reign of King Henry the Fourth who being desirous to have a new Order of Knighthood instituted under the Rule and denomination of the blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel applied himself to Pope Paul the Fifth for that purpose Hereupon the Pope the 7. of February 1608. confirmed the same and prescribed several things necessary to the Institution according to the mind of the King ordaining also Pensions to the Great Master and Knights of this Order out of certain Ecclesiastical Benefices in several places within the Kingdom of France After this the Commanderies and Hospitals of St. Lazarus lying in France were disposed of likewise for the support of the Knights of this new Order and the Knights of St. Lazarus that remained in that Kingdom were joined to these of the new Institution thus they became acknowledged to be one Body under two Titles which we find inscribed round the Seal of their Order viz. Sigillum Ordinis Militiae beatae Mariae Virginis de Monte Carmeli Sancti Lazari in Hierusalem So that at this time we find the Order of St. Lazarus to be divided between two other Societies namely the Order of St. Maurice in Savoy and of St. Mary of Mount Carmel in France This Order consists of one hundred choice Gentlemen of France and all appointed to attend on the Kings person upon every warlike Expedition They vow Obedience and Chastity and profess to fight against the Enemies of the Roman Church The Feast of their Patroness is annually celebrated on the 16. of Iuly Their first Master was Philibert Nerestang sometimes one of the Knights of St. Lazarus a valiant Gentleman and famous in all military Discipline for which cause he was thought worthy to be prefer'd to this Dignity and accordingly nominated by Henry the Fourth in April 1608. The 30. of October following he took the Oath as Great Master and of Fidelity to the French King The Badge of this Order is a Cross of eight points of Tawney Velvet or Satin but some say of a Violet colour with a white Bordure sewed on the left side of their Cloaks and the Image of the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel placed in the middle within a Rundle encompassed with beams or rays of Gold all wrought in curious Imbrodery besides this the Knights wear about their necks in a Tawny Silk Ribbon the like Cross of Gold but the Image of the said Virgin is enameled on both sides The Statutes of this Order are exhibited by A. Favin and the solemn Rites used at the investiture of these Knights are much after the manner of those of Malta Knights of the Order of the most glorious Virgin Mary of Rome 45. It was but of late years viz. 1618. that three Brethren of Spella in Italy namely Pedro Iohn Baptista and Bernardo surnamed Petrignanoes invented this Order of Knighthood to which was given the Rule of St. Francis d' Assise and whereof the Pope and his Successors are Great Masters Paul the Fifth approved this Order and gave these Knights the Palace of St. Iohn de Laterane for their Convent the City and Port of Civita Vechia to make their Arsenal of Gallies as also an Island adjacent to that Port together with the Government of his Gallies The cause of its Institution was for the exaltation of the
upper Ward King Henry the Eighth new built the great Gate at the entrance into the lower Ward King Edward the Sixth began and Queen Mary perfected the bringing of Water from Blackmore Park in Wingfield Parish into a Fountain of curious workmanship erected in the middle of the upper Ward which served all the Castle Queen Elizabeth made a Terrace Walk on the North-side of the Castle from whence there is a pleasant prospect down upon Eaton Colledge the Thames and neighbouring Country And King Charles the First an 1636. built the Gate at the East end of the said Terrace leading into the Park Lastly his now Majesty out of a particular regard to this princely place hath issued great sums of money in its repair and furnishing it with a curious and gallant Magazine of Arms so well order'd and kept that it is worthy the sight of every Traveller And here our learned Cambden's elegant Description of this Castle 's situation must not be omitted For from an high Hill saith he that riseth with a gentle ascent it enjoyeth a most delightful prospect round about Foreright in the Front it over-looketh a Vale lying out far and wide garnished with Corn-fields flourishing with Meadows dâ—ckt with Groves on either side and watered with the most mild and calm River Thames behind it arise Hills every where neither rough nor over high attired as it were with Woods and even dedicated as one would say by Nature to hunting Game With this let us offer what Sir Denham's ingenious Muse hath rarely limn'd out of its situation also and majestick fabrick Windesor the next where Mars with Venus dwells Beauty with strength above the Valley swells Into my eye and doth it self present With such an easie and unforc't ascent That no stupendious precipice denies Access no horror turns away our Eyes But such a Rise as doth at once invite A pleasure and a reverence from our sight Thy mighty Masters Emblem in whose face Sat Meekness heightned with Majestick Grace Such seems thy gentle height made only proud To be the basis of that pompous load Than which a nobler weight no Mountain bears But Atlas only that supports the Spheres And now to afford our Reader 's Eye yet more pleasure and satisfaction than these verbal Descriptions can do his fancy we shall here insert the exact Draughts of several Views and Prospects of this princely and magnificent Structure This Castle is under the government of a Constable whose Office is of great antiquity honor and power but of little profit The use and signification of the word Constabularius with others of a neer spelling and like sense found in Historians is shewed by the learned Spelman and particularly applied to the Governour of a Castle the French call him Chastelan whom we call Constable of a Castle but in the Rolls of King Iohn's time which is as high as we have any the Governour of this Castle is called Constable and under that title hath the Office ever since passed His Office is mixt partly Military and partly Civil as a Military Officer pertains to him the sole Command of the place and of any Garrison placed there as also of the Magazine of Arms Stores and Houses He is obliged to defend it against all Enemies whether domestick or foreign hath the charge of Prisoners brought thither and is answerable for them and for all that is in the Castle to the King under whom he is Captain or Governour there Prospect of the Castle from the S. E. Prospect of WINDSOR CASTLE from the North. He hath a Deputy learned in the Law who is called Steward of the Court of Record and is Keeper of the Constables Seal of Office belonging to this Court with which all things issuing out of it are sealed This Officer supplies the Constables places as Iudge of that Court of Pleas from whose Judgment the appeal is by Writ of Error returnable in the Kings-Bench or Common-Pleas at Westminster The Constable of this Castle is likewise chief Forester and Warden of the Forest of Windesor which is one hundred and twenty miles in compass He hath under him one or more Lieutenants at his pleasure with several other Officers and hath power to imprison any Trespasser in Vert or Venison being convicted according to the Law of the Forest having a Prison in the Castle for that purpose called the Colehole This Command of his is not only great but full of pleasure specially to such a one as takes delight in Hunting for he hath the freedom of using the sports of the Forest when he pleaseth which none else can do unless the Kings license or Constables leave be first obtained He signs all Warrants to kill Deer except what the King signs to fell Timber and Wood. He that was Chastelain of this Castle in William the Conquerors Reign was Walter fitz Other from whom the Honorable Family of Barons Windesor are descended and the present Constable is his Highness Prince Rupert SECT II. Of the Chappel of St. George PRoceed we next to the Chappel of St. George situate in the lower Ward or Court of this princely Castle concerning which we think fit to give our present discourse commencement at the foundation of the Colledge within this Chappel by King Edward the Third because it had a peculiar respect to the most noble Order of the Garter and wave speaking of the first erection thereof by King Henry the First who dedicated it to King Edward the Confessor First therefore we shall observe That King Edward the Third shortly after he had founded the Colledge of which we shall treat in the next Section thought it convenient to pull down the old Chappel and to erect another more large and stately Hereupon he granted to Iohn de Sponlee the Office of Master of the Stone-hewers and gave him power to take and press as well within Liberties as without so many Masons and other Artificers as were necessary and to convey them to Windesor to work at the Kings pay but to arrest and imprison such as should disobey or refuse until the King took other order with a command to all Sheriffs Mayors Bailiffs c. to be assisting to him on the Kings behalf The following year this King assigned Iames de Dorchester Sub-Constable of the Castle to keep a Controll upon all the Provisions whatsoever bought for the works of the Chappel as also on the payments made for the same and all other things relating thereunto Together with this Fabrick he erected several Houses neer adjoining for the Custos and Canons to inhabit in and afterwards King Henry the Fourth gave to them a void place in the Castle called the Wodehawe nigh to the great Hall for building of Houses and Chambers for the Vicars Clerks Choristers and the other Ministers assigned to the service of the Chappel But King Edward the Fourth whose inclination to and kindness
leaving the Earl and Ambassador and all their Trains to return in their Coaches through Paris to the House of Longueville The same night the Earl with the Lord Ambassador and all the English Gentlemen that were the Queens Servants did sup at the Court the Earl and the Ambassador at the lower end of the Kings Table at which Board did also sit with the King the two Queens and six or seven other great Ladies among whom the Lady Sheffield was one and at another Table in the same Chamber did sit divers great Ladies all along one side and over against them the Lord Sands the Lord Windesor and the other English Gentlemen Supper being ended and the place ordained for dancing the King took his Wife by the hand and danced with her the like did divers other great Lords and Ladies of France and lastly three English Gentlemen I omit the description of the Masque and other â—â—ngular Musick both costly and curious whereby the Evening was spent till three of the Clock the next morning On the 28. of February the Ambassador with his Train took their leave at whose return from the Court to his Lodging he was presented that night with a rich Cupboard of Plate worth 1200 l. at the least and unto Mr. Clarenceux was given a Chain of Gold worth 120 l. and better of 236 links to Master Somerset a Chain of 150 links worth 100 Marks and to Thomas Milles a Chain of the same value On Thursday next the Earl with his Train set forward homeward from Paris unto St. Dennis and so were lodged all the way in the same Lodgings that before they had been received in and arrived prosperously in England from Boloigne to Dover the 12. of March and on the Tuesday following were brought to the Queen'â— Majesty's presence at Greenwich who graciously welcomed them home A Relation of that pompous Solemnity celebrated at the Duke of Wirtemberg's Investiture with the Habit and Ensigns of the most Noble Order of the Garter an I. Iac. R. extracted out of Erhardus Cellius his Eques Auratus Anglo-Wirtembergicus RObert Lord Spencer of Wormleiton and Sir Gilbert Dethick Knight Garter Principal King of Arms were joined in Commission bearing Teste at Woodstock the 18 day of September an I. Jac. R. to present and invest Frederick Duke of Wirtemberg and Teck with the Habit and Ensigns of the most Noble Order of the Garter They began their Iourney in the beginning of October an 1603 and came to the City of Studtgard the second of November following Vpon their arrival they presented their Credential Letters which being reâ—d the said Duke began to treat the Ambassadors with the highest respect imaginable and to put all things into a readiness for his solemn reception of the Ornaments of thâ— Order To which end he sent for his three Sons with their Tutors from the Caâ—â—â—â— of Tubing where they followed their Studies to be present at this Solemnity likewise he ordered the Vice-President and twelve Assistants of his Ducal Conâ—istory anâ— all the principal and most noble Persons of his Court to be present Moreover he appointed an English Lord and the Lord Benjamin Buwingkshausin one of his Privy Council to be the principal Contrivers Directors and Managers of all things that should belong to the setting forth of this Solemnity for the performance of which two places were especially allotted prepared and adorned namely the great Church of Studtguard where the Investiture was to be conferr'd and the great Hall of the Castle called from hence Hypocaustrum Equestre whence the Proceeding was to begin and pâ—ss toward the Church At the entrance of the Choire were four stately Stalls erected with their Canopieâ— Footstools and ascents on each side and covered with Velvet the first Stall was assigned to the Soveraign of the Order on the back side whereof his Majesties Arms and Stile were engraven besides his Stile written underneath in French thus Du tres-hault tres-puissant tres-excellent Prince Iaques par la grace de Dieu Roy d' Angleterre d' Escosse France d' Irelande Defenseur de la Foy c. Souveraigne du tres-noble Ordre de la Iartier The second Stall was placed on the right hand next to the Soveraign's in like manner adorned and assigned to the Principal Ambassador the Lord Spencer who in conferring the Order was to represent the Soveraign's person The third Stall was on the left hand next to the second assigned to Sir William Dethick Garter Principal King of Arms. The fourth Stall was also on the left hand over against the Soveraign's Throne after the same manner made and adorned assigned to the Elect Duke and on the back side thereof his own Arms and Stile also engraven besides his Stile likewise underwritten in French thus Du tres-hault puissant tres-noble Prince Frederick par la grace de Dieu Duke de Wirtemberg Teck Comte de Montbeliardt Seigneur de Haydenhemb c. Chevalier du tres noble Ordre de la Iartier There were also on the right and left hand of the Stall Benches or Seats continued on either side as far as the Altar these Seats were all covered with red Cloth and also the stone Pavement from the steps of the Vestry unto the Stall of the Elect-Duke and so from the middle of the Vestry unto the Altar in the form of a Cross. The Altar was covered with red Silk hanging down to the ground in the middle of which three gilt Basons were set upright the first for the Soveraign the second for his Ambassador and the third for the Elect-Duke The Hall of the Castle was magnificently set out with rich Hangings and other costly Furniture Towards the East and South were placed five stately long Tables covered with Velvet as also the Seats and Benches about them the middlemost of these Tables was called the Soveraign's Table in honor of the King of England though absent over the Soveraign's Chair was set a stately Canopy of Silk and on the back side of the Seat towards the middle thereof were fixt his Majesty's Arms with his Stile underwritten after the same manner as on his Stall in the Church At the right hand of the Soveraign's Table were two other Tables the one for the Lord Ambassador Spencer the other for Sir William Dethick Garter both covered in like manner with Silk and adorned with Canopies and their Arms. On the left hand of the Soveraign's Table were likewise two other Tables one for the new invested Duke covered and adorned with his Arms and a Canopy in the same manner as in the Church the other for the Duke's Wife and Children who were ten in number of either Sex Besides those that were particularly warned to be present at this Feast which was cheerfully performed by them there came divers of their own accord from all parts of the Dukedom drawn by the fame of a Feast and Solemnity the like whereof had not been in
done him the most noble service in that Expedition did select of them the number twenty five and gave them Blue Garters embroidered and buckled under the Knee with this Motto Hony soit qui mal y pense as a caveat to avoid the emulation of other who might perhaps presume they had deserved as much honor as others Now the question may be asked said the Prince why a Garter rather than any other thing should be made an Order It is to be answered said I that at that time most men especially men of Arms wore their Boots close up gartered and buckled with thongs of Leather under their Knees a Custom yet used of some men for the strengthening of their Leg so with divers other trivial questions the Dinner was spent and ended and I with due thanks and humble salutations took my leave Tuesday morning I delivered the Robes of the Order to the Master of his Wardrobe and on Tuesday in the Afternoon I with my Sons and Mr. Lennard kissed his Excellencies hands and took our leave who most princely thanked us for the pains we had taken to do him honor Wednesday in the morning I was presented with four Chains one for my self of the value of 240 l. sterling two Chains for my Sons the third for Mr. Lennard being all lesser in value than those which I had received of Grave Maurice by 130 l. The Ambassador Lord Carleton had a standing Cup with a Cover of 500 l. being of pure Gold The same day in the Afternoon I gave Rewards to the Chastellain and his Wife with the Servants of the House and taking my leave that night of the Ambassador with whom I supped I took my Iourney on Thursday in the morning by Water to Delf where I hired two Waggons to transport me to Maisland Sluce where I took shipping for England in the same Merchants Ship that brought me thither Friday morning the first of June we set sail and on Saturday in the Afternoon we all safely arrived at Gravesend thanked be God Tuesday following I went by Coach to Oatlands and delivered my Letters to the King from the Prince of Orange and the Lord Ambassador Carleton making a brief relation of the performance of our Employments which it was his Majesties pleasure I should do A Relation of the Investiture of Charles the Eleventh King of Sweden with the Habit and Ensigns of the Order drawn up by Henry St. George Esq Richmond Herald Charles the Eleventh King of Sweden c. being elected into the most Noble Order of the Garter at a Chapter held by the Soveraign and Companions of the said Order the 18. day of June 1668. The Right Honorable Charles Earl of Carlisle c. was by the Soveraign appointed his Ambassador extraordinary to the said King and Henry St. George Esq Richmond Herald was commanded to attend the Ceremony of his said Majesty's Investiture in the place of Garter Principal King of Arms. Being furnished with all Necessaries for this service as the Robes Collar George Garter c. and having received his Majesty's Commission under the Seal of the said Order they set sail from Greenwich in the Anne a Yaght belonging to his Royal Highness the Duke of York on Friday the 5. of February 1668. and landed at Rotterdam on Sunday the 7. of the said Month from whence they proceeded on their journey to Stockholme first to Hamborough and then to Lubeck where my Lord Ambassador having received command from the King to go for Denmark they took shipping at Framond the Port of the said City on Saturday the 20. of March and landed at Copenhagen on Monday the 22. of the said Month. After same 10 days there in which time his Lordship dispatched his business in that Court they again imbarqued themselves in a Frigat of the King of Denmark's and arrived at Stockholme on Saturday the 10. of April being Easter Eve where his Excellency continued some weeks incognito till the arrival of his Train and Equipage Saturday June the 5. the Countess of Carlisle landed at Stockholme and about a week after arrived the Ship with my Lord Ambassador's Goods and Retinue Wednesday the 7. of July my Lord Ambassador made his Entry into Stockholme and on Saturday the 10. of the said Month had his publick Audience of the King Monday the 26 of July my Lord Ambassador and Mr. St. George at a private Audience delivered their Credentials concerning the Garter and his Majesty of Sweden received the lesser George Thursday the 29. of July was appointed for his Majesty's publick reception of the whole Habit of the Order which Ceremony was performed as followeth Abouth three of the Clock that Afternoon my Lord Ambassador and Mr. St. George were by two principal Senators Count Neile Brahe and Count John Steenbook the Master of the Ceremonies with the King's Coaches Pages and Footmen all in new Liveries with many Officers and Cavalier conducted to the Castle being come into the great Court they were met at the Stairs foot where they alighted by several of the King's Servants and so conducted up to certain Rooms where the Robes c. were deposited having been sent thither that morning here my Lord Ambassador for a while reposed himself whilst Mr. St. George made ready the Robes c. and put on his Mantle and having now notice that his Majesty was come into the Great Hall they proceeded thither Mr. St. George bearing the Robes c. on a Velvet Cushen At the entrance into the Hall they were met by the Rix-Marshall Count Gabriel Oxenstiern having in his hand a long Staff of Silver gilt and conducted to the upper end of the Room which was inclosed within a Rail and Ballister Here stood the King in a Suit and Cloak of Cloth of Silver with a large Plume of White Feathers in his Haet under a State of Crimson Velvet fringed with Gold to the back of which said State was affixed an Escotcheon of his Majesty's Arms within the Garter and his Stile underneath on the King 's right hand was erected a like State for the Soveraign with an Escutcheon of his Arms and his Stile also underneath with a Chair and Footstool Opposite to the King of Sweden's Chair was placed a Chair like in all things to that of the King 's for my Lord Ambassador and on the left hand of my Lord Ambassador was a Chair set for Mr. St. George and near it close to the Rails was a little Table to lay the Robes on On the King of Sweden's left hand at a good distance near the other end of the Rails sate the Queen under a lesser State of Cloth of Silver the haut-pas was covered with Turkie Carpets as was also all the ground within the Rails where stood the Regents and the rest of the Senators all in Cloaks and Bands as is used at their Dyets and most solemn Assemblies with Chairs behind them The whole Room was hung with Tapestry having a great number
other Ceremonies whereunto by the Statutes of the said Order he is bounden and for that cause hath by our special license appointed our trusty and well-beloved Sir Henry Sidney Knight sufficiently authorized as his deputy and procurer to be installed in his name and to receive his Oath and to perform all other such things and Ceremonies for him as by the Statutes and Ordinances of the said Order be requisite We therefore in consideration of the premisses will and by these presents give unto you full power licence and authority not only to accept and admit the said Sir Henry Sidney to be Deputy and procurer for our said well-beloved Cousen the said Earl of Warwick and to install him in the behalf of the said Earl but also further to do therein as to the Statutes and laudable usages of the said Noble Order in this case appertaineth And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in this behalf Yeven under the Seal of our said Order at our Palleys of Westminster the 20. day of May in the fifth Year of our Reign NUM LIV. A Letter giving notice to the Soveraign's Commissioners of the day of Installation of a Knight-Subject by his Proxy Ibidem By the Queen RIght trusty and right well-beloved Cousen we greet you well And whereas we have appointed you together with our right trusty and well-beloved Counsellor the Lord Hastinges of Loughborow our Lord Chamberlen to be in Commission for the stallment in our Castell of Windesore of our right trusty and well-beloved the Lord Grey of Wilton being lately chosen to be of the Fellowship and a Companion of our Noble Order of the Garter And forasmuch as the same Lord Grey is presently Prisoner with the French King and therefore cannot be installed in his own person Our pleasure is that he shall be installed by Sir Humfry Radclysse Knight whom we have appointed to be his Deputy in that behalf And therefore have thought good not only to give you knowledge thereof by these our Letters but also to require you to make your repair to our said Castell of Windesore so as you may be there by Tuesday at night being the 19. of this present moneth to the end that upon Wednesday next being the xx of this same moneth he may proceed to the said Installation accordingly Yeven under the Seal of our said Order at our Mannor of Greenwich the xvi of April the fourth and fifth years of our Reigns To our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousen Th'Erle of Huntington Compaignion and Knight of our Noble Order of the Garter NUM LV. The Oath given to Sir Robesart's Proxy Ex Regist. Chartac fol. 5. a. MOY Thomas Barr Chivaler procureur a mon Maister Sire John Robesart eslieux d'èstre de l'honourable compaignie du Garter promete jure en lalme en nomme de mon dite Maister de loialment garder observer les pointes queconquez de lez estatutz du dite Ordre en cea que a luy pertiendra selonc le forme effecte dez estatuz susditz selonc son loial povoir NUM LVI The Oath given to the Lord Scroope's Proxy Ex Collect. I. V. YOV being Deputy and Procurer for the Lord Scroope of Bolton named and chosen to be one of the Companions of the most honourable Order of the Garter shall in the said Lords name promise and swear by the holy Evangelists by you here touched that the said Lord wittingly and willingly shall not break any Statutes of the said Order or any Article in them contained the same being agreeable and not repugnant to the Laws of Almighty God and the Laws of this Realm as for forth as unto him belongeth and appertaineth As God you help and his holy Word NUM LVII The Certificate of Election to the French King Henry the Second MS. quart penes W. le N. f. 109. b. TReshault trespuissant Prince trescher tresaymé bon frere Cousin tant si affectueusement que faire pouvons a vous nous recommendons Comme par la tresgrande noblesse prouesse aultres grandes vertus merites de vostre tresnoble personne tant approuvés que justement la fame en est par tout cognue oultre ce pour tant plus augmenter faire accroistre la bonne fraternelle amitié consederation d'entre vous nous nos Royaumes Subjects avons assemblé en deué Collegialle ancienne maniere avec les Chevaliers de nostre Ordre du Jarretiere an Chapitre tenu celebrè en nostre manoir de Greenwich le xxiv jour D'avril derniere passè avons tous ensemble d'un Commun unanime consentiment vouloir esleu choisi nommé vostre tresnoble personne au nombre de nostre dit amiable Compagnie Ordre du Jarretiere de la quelle Election il nous a semble bon vous advertir par cestes vous priant trescordiallement treshault trespuissant Prince trescher tresamé bon frere Cousin de faire cest boneur a nous toute la dite Compaignie de consentir a la dite Election en acceptant pour l'amour de nous comme par ce vous nous feres chose tres-agreable ainsi nous estimerons nostre dit Ordre d'autant plus garni decoré come entendres plus amplement par nos Ambassadeurs qui pour ceste cause sont prests a partir par devers vous Parquoy nous ne vous tiendrons ny plus long propos Ains prions le Createur treshaut trespuissant Prince trescher tresaime bon frere Cousin vous avoir en sa tressainte digne garde Excript a nostre Manoir de Greenwich le jour de May 1551. NUM LVIII A Credential Letter sent to Emanuel Duke of Savoy with the Habit and Ensigns of the Order Ex MS. 4. penes W. le N. Cl. fol. 110. TResbault tresexcellent Prince trescher bien aimé Cousin a vous bien affectucusement nous nous recommendons Comme sur l'advertissement que nous vous feismes de vostre Election icy au nombre amiable Compaignie de nos confreres Chevaliers Compaignons de nostre Ordre de la Jarretiere vous avez signifié depuis vostre bonne pronte acceptation singulier contentement de la dite Election si desirant affectueusement qu'elle pregne son den effect Nous avons prontement à ce despeché devers vous nostre tresseal bien aimé le Sieur de Clinton Say Chevalier Compagnon du dit Ordre nostre seal bien aimé Gartiere Roy d' Armes de l'Ordre avec ample pouvoir Commission non seullement pour vous presenter bailler donner de par nous la Jarretiete manteau aultres ensignes appartenantes au dit Ordre mais aussi faire tout aultre chose en tel cas accoustumé requise come ferious si nous y fussions en
to be one of the Companions of the said Order One Mantle of Blue Velvet lined with white Taffata and one Kirtle lined with white Sarâ—â—net with one Robeâ— lace of Silk and Gold and Silk Riband for the said Robes and as much Crymson Velvet as will cover one Book of the Order of the said Garter with Silk Lace to the said Book one Case to be made covered with Crimson Velvet garnished with passamain Lace of Gold lined with Crimson Satten and quilts of the same Satten for the carriage of one rich Collar of Gold of the Order of the Garter one pair of trussing Sheets two great Coffers covered double with Hide Leather double lined and bound with Plates with great Girths of Leather to them one Pack-Saddle with all things necessary to the same for carriage of the said Robes And these our Letters c. Given at our Pallace at Westminster the 19. day of October in the first and second years of our Reign To our trusty Sir Edward Waldgrave Master of our Great Wardrobe NUM LXXVII A Warrant for the Delivery of the Habit of Frederick the Second King of Denmark Ex Codice MS. in Offic. Mag. Gardrob Regis vocat Lib. quart Warr. particular p. 446. Elizabeth R. WE will and command you to deliver to the Lord Willoughby for the Livery of the Garter for the King of Denmark 20 yards of Purple Velvet for his Robe and 18 yards of Crimson Velvet for his Kirtle and also 26 yards of White Sarcenet for lining of them Item a Scutcheon richly embroidered with Damask Gold and Purls one Lace for the same Robe of Silk and Gold with Buttons and Tassels of Silk and Gold NUM LXXVIII A Warrant for Delivery of the Habit and Hatchments of the French King Henry the Third Ex Collect. W. le N. Cl. Elizabeth R. WE will and command you immediately upon the sight hereof to deliver or cause to be delivered for the several uses hereafter ensuing the parcels following that is to say first for a Livery of the honorable Order of the Garter for our dear Brother Henry the French King one Kirtle Hood and Tippet containing 18 yards of Velvet Crimson one Mantle containing 20 yards of Velvet Purple and twenty six yards of Taffata White to line them one Cushen of Velvet Purple with Fringes Buttons and Tassels of Gold and Purple Silk with a Pillow of Fustian stuffed with Down one double Banner containing 16 yards of Velvet Crimson and Blue embroidered on both sides with the Arms of France and Poland with Cloth of Gold Cloth of Silver Venice Gold Silver and Silk one Banner Staff painted in Oyle Colour one Helm of Steel all gilt and Mantles to the same Helm containing two yards and a half of Cloth of Gold lined with one yard and an half of Satten white two knopps of Wood gilt with burnished Gold for the same Mantle with silk Tassels to them a Crown of Wood with the Crâ—st carved and gilt with burnished gold A Sword having the Pomel and Hilts all gilt one Scabbard for the same with a gilt Chape and a Girdle both being covered with Cloth of Gâ—ld containing one yard one Book of the Statutes of the Order aforesaid illumined covered with Velvet Crimson and edged with gold Lace three great Escocheons whereof one of our Arms another of the French Kings Arms both within the Garter under Crowns Imperial painted and gilded with fine Gold in Oyl upon fine Holland Cloth set in Frames of Wanscot likewise painted and gilt and the third of the Arms of our right trusty and right well-belovâ—d Cousin and Counsellor the Earl of Derby likewise painted and gilt in like Holland Cloth and set in a like Frame all placed in the Chappel wherein the said King was installed one Plate of the said Kings Arms ingraven in Copper gilt and enameled fixed within his Stall within our Chappel at Windsor And that ye content and pay as well for the making imbroidering and painting of the premises as also for the carrying of the Hâ—tchments of the said King to our Castel at Windsor and also that you deliver two Trunks for the Carriage of the Parcels aforesaid into France c. And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge for dâ—livery of all the premises Given under our Signet at our Mannor of Greenwich the 22. day of April in the 27. year of our Reign Anno 1582. To our trusty and well-beloved Servant Iohn Fortescue Esquire Master of our great Wardrobe NUM LXXIX A Warrant for Delivery of the Habit of Christierne the Fourth King of Denmark Ex Collect. E.W.G. James R. WE will and command you to deliver or cause to be delivered to our most dear and well-beloved Brother the King of Denmark one Robe of Purple Velvet of our Noble Order of the Garter and one Kirtle Hood and Surcoat of Crimson Velvet of our said Order lined with White Taffata bordered with Fustian and sewed with Silk with a long String Button and Tassel to the same in such manner and form as to the said Robes belongeth and also one Garter to set upon the shoulder of the same Robe richly embroidered upon Blue Velvet with sundry sorts of Pearls Purls Plates Venice Twists and Silk And these our Letters signed with our own hand shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in this behalf Given under our Signet at our Honor of Hampton-Court the xxviii day of September in the fourth year of our Reign of England France and Ireland and of Scotland the fortieth To our trusty and well-beloved Servant Sir Roger Aston Knight Master of our Great Wardrobe NUM LXXX A Warrant for Delivery of the Ensigns of the Order to be sent to the Emperor Maximilian the Second Ex Collect. W. le N. Cl. Elizabeth R. By the Queen RIght trusty and right well-beloved Cousin we greet you well And whereas we have now resolved to send forthwith our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousin the Earl of Sussex unto our good Brother and Cousin the Emperor and have also appointed Sir Gilbert Dethick Knight alias Garter Principal King at Arms to attend upon our said Cousin of Sussex in the presenting unto the said Emperor the Robes of our Order of the Garter and such other things as belong thereunto We will and command you to deliver or cause to be delivered unto the said Garter all such things as you have by our Order given heretofore unto you caused to be prepared for this purpose that is to say the great Collar of Gold with the little George the Garter the great George with the little Chain and all other things that you have made ready to be sent in this Iourney And these our Letters with a Bill of the said Garter's testifying the receipt of the same shall be your sufficient Warrant in this behalf Given under our Signet at our Palace of Westminster the xx of May the ninth year of our Reign 1567. To our right trusty