Pembrooke IOHN STAFFORD Earle of Wiltes HEN. PERCY Earle of Northumberland IOHN TIPTOFT Earle of Worcester GALLIARD Lord Duras IOHN Lord Scrope of Bolton WALT. D'EVREVX Lord Ferrers WALT. BLOVNT Lord Montjoy WILL. Lord Hastings Sir IOHN ASTLEY Sir WILL. CHAMBERLAINE Sir WILL. PARRE Sir ROB. HARICOVRT Sir THOMAS MONTGOMERY RICHARD OF GLOVCESTER of that Name the third c. and Soveraigne of the Garter admitted these viz. THO. HOVVARD Duke of Norfolke THO. Lord Stanley afterwards Earle of Darby FRANCIS Viscount Lovell Sir IGHN COGNIERS Sir RICH. RADCLIFFE Sir THOM. BVRGH Sir RICH. TVNSTALL HENRY the VII of that Name KING OF ENGLAND c. and Soveraigne of the Garter admitted to this honour MAXIMILIAN Archduke of Austria and after Emperour IOHN King of Portugall IOHN King of Danemarke PHILIP of Austria King of Castile ALPHONSO Duke of Calabria and after King of Naples ARTHVR Prince of Wales HENRY Duke of Yorke and Prince of Wales after his Brother VEALDO Duke of Vrbine EDVV. STAFFORD Duke of Buckingham THOM. GREY Marquise Dorset IOAN VERE Earle of Oxon. HEN. PERCY Earle of Northumberland GEO. TALBOT Earle of Shrewsbury HEN. BOVRCHIER Earle of Essex RICH. GREY Earle of Kent EDVVARD COVRTNEY Earle of Devon HEN. Lord Stafford Earle of Wiltes EDM. DE LA POLE Earle of Suffolke CH. SOMERSET Earle of Worcester GERALD Earle of Kildare IOHN Viscount Welles GEO. STANLEY Lord Strange WILL. STANLEY the Lord Chamberlaine IOHN Lord Dynham ROB. WILLOVGHBY Lord Brooke Sir GILES D'AVBENY Sir EDVV. POYNINGS Sir EDVV. WIDDEVILE Sir GILBERT TALBOT Sir IOHN CHEYNIE Sir RICHARD GVILFORD Sir THOM. LOVELL Sir THOM. BRANDON Sir REGINALD BRAY. Sir RHESE AP THOMAS Sir IOHN SAVAGE Sir RICH. POOLE HENRY the VIII of that Name KING OF ENGLAND c. and Soveraigne of the Garter Chose in his Reigne CHARLES the fifth Emperour of Germany and King of Spaine FERDINAND Archduke of Austria and King of the Romanes FRANCIS the first King of France EMANVEIL King of Portugall IAMES the fifth King of Scotland HENRY FITZ-ROY Duke of Richmond and Somerset IVLIAN DE MEDICES EDVVARD SEYMOVR Earle of Hartford and after Duke of Somerset THOM. HOVVARD Duke of Norfolke CH. BRANDON Duke of Suffolke IOHN DVDLEY Viscount L'isle afterwards Duke of Norhumberland ANNAS Duke of Montmorancie HENRY COVRTNEY Marquise of Exeter WILL. PARRE Marquise of Northampton WILLIAM PAVVLET Lord St. Iohn of Basing after Marquise of Winchester HENRY HOVVARD Earle of Surrey THO. BVLLEN Earle of Wiltes WIL. FITZ-ALAN Earle of Arundell IOHN VERE Earle of Oxon. HENRY PERCY Earle of Northumberland RAPH NEVILL Earle of Westmerland FR. TALBOT Earle of Shrewsbury PHIL. DE CHABOT Earle of Newblanch Admirall of France THOM. MANNOVRS Earle of Rutland ROB. RATCLIFFE Earle of Sussex HENRY CLIFFORD Earle of Cumberland WILL. FITZ-WILLIAMS Earle of South-hampton THOM. Lord Cromwell Earle of Essex IOH. Lord Russell Earle of Bedford THOMAS Lord Wriothesley after Earle of Southampton ARTHVR PLANTAGENET base sonne of Edw. 4. Viscount L'isle WALT. D'EVREVX Viscount Hereford EDVV. HOVVARD Lord Admirall GEO. NEVILL Lord Abergevenny THOM. Wâ—st Lord de la Ware THOM. Lord Dacres of Gillesland THOM. Lord Darcy of the North. EDVVARD SVTTON Lord Dudley WIL. BLOVNT Lord Montjoy EDVV. STANLEY Lord Monteagle WIL. Lord Sands HENRY Lord Marney THO. Lord Audley of Walden Chancellour of England Sir IOHN GAGE Sir HENRY GVILFORD Sir NICH. CAREVV Sir ANTHONY BROVVNE Sir THOM. CHEYNIE Sir RICHARD WINGFEILD Sir ANTH. WINGFEILD Sir ANTH. St. LEGER Lord Deputie of Ireland Sir IOH. WALLOP EVVARD the VI. of that Name KING OF ENGLAND c. and Soveraigne of the Garter ascribed into the Order HENRY the second King of France HENRY GREY Duke of Suffolke HENRY NEVILL Earle of Westm. FR. HASTINGS Earle of Huntingdon WILL. HERBERT Earle of Pembrooke EDVV. STANLEY Earle of Darby THO. WEST Lord de la Ware GEO. BROOKE Lord Cobbam EDVVARD Lord Clinton Admirall THOMAS Lord Seymor of Sudeley WILL. Lord Paget of Beaudesert THOM. Lord Darcy of Chiche Sir ANDREVV SVTTON alias Dudley MARY QVEENE OF ENGLAND c. and Soveraigne of the Garter assumed into the voide places PHILIP of Austria King of Spaine the Queenes Husband EMANVEL Duke of Sâ—voy HENRY RATCLIFFE Earle of Sussex ANTH. BROVVNE Viscount Montacute WILL. Lord HOVVARD of Effingham WILL. Lord Grey of Wilton EDVV. Lord Hastings of Loughborow ELIZABETH QVEENE OF ENGLAND c. and Soveraigne of the Garter supplied the Vacant places of the Order with 1559. FREDERICK Duke of Wittenberge THOM. HOVVARD Duke of Norfolke 1559. ROB. DVDLEY Lord Denbigh and Earle of Leicester HENRY MANNOVRS Earle of Rutland WIL. PARRE Earle of Essex and Marq. of Northampton 1560. ADOLPHVS Duke of Holsatia 1561. GEORGE TALBOT Earle of Shrewsbury HENRY CARIE Lord Hunsdon 1563. AMEROSE DVDLEY Lord L'isle and Earle of Warwicke THOM. PERCY Earle of Northumberland 1564. CHARIES the Ninth King of France FRANCIS Lord Russell Earle of Bedford 1568. MAXIMILIAN King of Hungary and Bohemia Emperour 1570. FRANCIS HASTINGS Earle of Huntingdon WIL. SOMERSET Earle of Worcester 1572. FRANCIS Duke of Montmorency WALTER Viscount Hereford and Earle of Essex ARTHVR Lord Grey of Wilton EDM. BRVGES Lord Chandos FREDERICK King of Denmarke 1574. HENRY STANLEY Earle of Darby HENRY HERBERT Earle of Pembrooke 1575. CHARLES Lord Howard of Effingham and Admirall of England afterwards Earle of Nottingham 1579. IOHN CASIMIRE Count Palatine of the Rhene and Duke of Bavaria 1584. HENRY the Third King of France EDVV. MANNOVRS Earle of Rutland WIL. CECILL Lord Burghley WIL. BROOKE Lord Cobham HENRY Lord Scrope of Bolton 1486. HENRY RATCLIFFE Earle of Sussex 1588. ROBERT DEVREVX Earle of Essex Sir HENEY SIDNEY Lord President of the Marches Sir CHRISTOPHER HATTON Lord Chancellour 1592. GILBERT TALBOT Earle of Shrewsbury GEORGE CLIFFORD Earle of Cumberland 1593. HENRY PERCY Earle of Northumberland EDVVARD SOMERSET Earle of Worcester THOMAS Lord Burgh EDMOND Lord Sheffeild Sir FRANCIS KNOLLES Treasurer of the Houshold 1596. HENRY the fourth King of France and Navarre 1597. FREDERICKE Duke of Wittemberge THGM SACKVILL Lord Buckhurst afterwards Earle of Dorset THOM. Lord Howard of Walden afterwards Earle of Suffolke GEORGE CARY Lord Hunsdon CH. BIOVNT Lord Montjoy after Earle of Devon Sir HENRY LEA Keeper of the Armorie 1599. ROB. RATCLIFFE Earle of Sussex HENRY BROOKE Lord Cobham 1601. WILL. STANLEY Earle of Darby THOM. CECILL Lord Burghley after Earle of Exeter IAMES the first KING OF GREAT BRITAINE and Soveraigne of the Garter adorned that Noble Order with these Worthies viz. 1603. CHHRISTIERNE the fourth King of Denmarke HENRY Prince of Wales LEVVLS Duke of Lennox and afterwards of Richmond HEN. WRIOTHESLEY Earle of South-hampton IOHN ERESKIN Earle of Marre WILL. HERBERT Earle of Pembrooke 1605. VLRICK Duke of Holst HEN. HOVVARD Earle of Northampton 1606. ROB. CECILL Earle of Salisbury THOM. HOVVARD Viscount Bindon 1608. GEORGE HVME Earle of Dunbarre PHILIP HERBERT Earle of Montgomery 1611. CHARLES the Kings second Sonne after the death of his Brother Henry Prince of Wales THOM. HOVVARD
9 The publike service of that Church on St. Georges day 10 Arguments drawne from the Church service of what validitie 11 Saint George continually famous in the Church Christian. 12 And among the Turkes CHAP. V. 1 The honour done vnto the Dead in the decent buriall of their bodies 2 The reliques of the Saints of what esteeme in the Church primitive 3 The care of Gregorie of Tours to preserve his writings and what he testifieth of St. George's reliques 4 What mention there is made of them in Aymonius and others 5 Churches distinguished anciently by the names of Saints and for what reason 6 St. George's Churches in Lydda and in Ramula made afterwards a Byshops Seate 7 St. George's Church built by Sidonius Archbyshop of Mentz 8 That mention'd in St. Gregories Epistles 9 St. George's Church in Rome the title of a Cardinall 10 Churches erected to St. George in Alexandria and elsewhere 11 Of Faustus Rhegiensis 12 And the Pseudo-Martyr in Sulpitius 13 An application of the rule in Lerinensis vnto the businesse now in hand CHAP. VI. 1 St. George how hee became to bee accounted the chiefe Saint of Souldiers 2 St. George when first esteemed a chiefe Patron of Christianity 3 The expedition of the Westerne Princes to the Holy Land 4 The Storie of the succours brought unto their Army by St. George 5 Second apparition to them at the Leaguer of Hierusalem 6 The probability of the former myracle disputed 8 An essay of the famous battaile of Antiochia by way of Poem CHAP. VII 1 The honours done by Kings to others of what reckoning 2 Arguments used by the Iewes in the defence of their Temple of Hierusalem 3 Of Monasteries dedicated to St. George 4 St. George's Canons a Religious order 5 St. George by what Kings honoured anciently as a chiefe Saint of Soldierie 6 The military Order of St. George in Austria 7 The German or Dutch Order call'd Sanct Georgen Schilts 8 St. George's banke in Genoa 9 And his band in Italie 10 The Georgians why so called and of the honour done by them to our Martyr 11 A view of severall places denominated of St. George 12 A recollection of the Arguments before used in the present businesse CHAP. VIII 1 St. George not anciently esteemed the Patron of the English 2 Churches erected to him here in England 3 His apparition to King Richard in the Holy Land 4 What may bee thought in generall touching the apparition of the Saints 5 And what in this particular 6 St. George when he began to be entituled particularly to the English 7 The honours done him here and among the Irish. 8 The institution of the Noble Order of the Garter 9 A briefe view of the chiefe Statutes of the Order 10 St. George the Patron of it 11 Sr. W. Raleighs opinion touching the killing of the Dragon 12 And of them also which desire to haue the George Symbolicall 13 A Catalogue of all St. George's Knights of that most noble Order vntill this present 14 The Conclusion of the whole THE HISTORIE OF That most famous Saint and Soldier of CHRIST IESUS S t. GEORGE of CAPPADOCIA Asserted from the Fictions of the middle Ages of the Church and opposition of the present THE PREFACE 1 The natur◠of Curiositie 2 And pronenesse of the present Age to new fancies 3 The opening of the cause in hand 4 The Reasons which induced the Author to vndertake the Patronage of St. George's Cause and Historie 5 His resolution in it and the manner of his proceeding 6 The method of the whole 7 The Authors free submission of himselfe and his performance to the wise and learned 1 IT is a sad Complaint of Melchior Canus that many of us in this more neate and curious Age doe peevishly to say no worse reject those ancient Stories which are commended to us in the best and gravest Authors Plerique nostra hac aetate perversè ne dicam impudenter res quas esse gestas gravissimi autores testati sunt in dubium vocant So hee and certainly he spake it not at randome but as a man which well fore-saw to what extremities that restlesse humour of leaving nothing undiscussed and not so onely but leaving nothing in the state wee found it at the last would bring us For such the nature is of Curiositie especially if once attended with Selfe-love and that vnquiet spirit of Opposition that wee are alwayes watchfull to prie into the passages of former Times and Authors and leaue no path vntroden how crooked and indirect soever which may conduce to the advancement eyther of our cause or credit By meanes whereof as sometimes happily wee doe good service to the Common-wealth of Learning in the correcting of an Errour so for the most part wee involue it in uncertainties or broach new errours vnder a pretence of canvassing the Old or by denying credit to Antiquitie we onely teach posteritie how litle credit may be due vnto our selves 2 I say not this to blunt the edge of any vertuous endeavours nor to the prejudice of those heroicke spirits by whom so many of the ancient Writers which had beene buried in their owne dust and made a prey to moathes and cobwebs have beene restor'd vnto themselues Ill may I prosper in my Studies if I deny the least of due respects to them to whose most fortunate and painfull travailes wee owe no lesse than to the Authors Nor would I gladly be esteem'd a Patron eyther of lazie ignorance or of dull credulitie nor willingly bee thought to countenance those of the vulgar Heard who runne into receiv'd opinions as Calderinus in Ludovic Vives did to Masse Eamus ergo said he quia sic placet in communes errores Not so I know it argue's a degenerous and ignoble mind barely and simply to submit it selfe unto the tyrannie of popular fames or old traditions not daring once to search into them to see at least some shew of reason in our bondage Much like those noble Housekeepers so much commended in the Country who rather choose to haue their judgements question'd in giving entertainment vnto all than that their Hospitalitie should bee accused in excluding any Onely I said it a litle to take downe if possible that height of selfe-conceit and stomacke wherewith too many of vs doe affront those Worthies of the former dayes and set our selves against our Fathers Which humour if it once possesse vs in spight of him that told vs nihil novum est sub sole without regard of him that said it quia vetus est melius we must have every thing as new and moderne as our selves new Organons for Logicke new modells of Divinity scarce any thing which hath beene hitherto resolv'd eyther in Philologicall Theologie or in Philosophie no not in Ecclesiasticall or civill History not new not altered The tendries and decisions of our Ancestours growne as unfashionable as their garments and if we please our selves in any thing it must be somewhat which
haply because they descended of those Georgi which PLINIE nameth among the Caspian Inhabitants Let it suffice that though they take not their denomination from Saint GEORGE yet they affoord him more honour than any other of the Saints the same Authour telling us that when they goe into a Church they give meane respect to other Images but that Saint George is so worshipped we will permit him to make merry with himselfe that his Horses hoofes are kissed of them Michael ab Ysselt more seriously though he erre somewhat in the derivation Georgiani verò vocantur à D. Georgio quem velut patronum praecipuum in suis contra Paganos praelijs velut signiferum propugnatorem ingenti honore venerantur Quocunque enim tendunt turmatim incedunt vexillum D. Georgij insignitum circumferentes cuius ope auxilio in bello maximè se iuvari credunt The Georgians saith hee are so denominated from Saint GEORGE whom as their principall Patron and theyr Champion in their warres against the Pagans they worship with especiall honour For which way soever they employ their Forces they carry with them a faire Banner with the picture of Saint George upon it beleeving that by his assistance they are much comforted and ayded in their warres So the Historian 11 But howsoever we dare not say with him that this Asian people had their appellation from Saint George their Patron yet wee are confident of this that many places both of Asia and Europe have received denomination from him For heere in Asia wee finde a large and spacious Valley not farre from Libanus which is call'd St. George's Valley and we have also noted that the Towne of Lydda or Diospolis was by the Christians called Saint George's and that there is in Europe a St. George's Vally also in the midst of Germanie Adde hereunto that the Thracian Chersonesse is now called commonly St. George's Arme which is remembred by Maginus in his Geographie and hath beene since observed by Sir George Sandys The learned Munster doth transferre this appellation from the Land unto the Sea from the Thracian Chersonesse unto the narrow streight or Arme neere to it which they call Bosphorus Porrò Bosphorus appellatur brachium S. Georgij saith hee and like inough the name is fitted unto both But why this Chersonesse was call'd Saint George's Arme I cannot say unlesse perhaps that Relique of Saint George was there in former times layed up which after by Iustinian the Emperour was bestowed upon Saint German as before I noted Paulus Diaconus makes mention of Saint George's River neare to the Country of the Bulgarians Coeterùm Aprili mense saith hee of Constantine the Sonne of Eirene cum castra moveret contra Bulgares venit ad castellum quod dicitur Probati ad rivum D. Georgij Wee reade in our industrious CAMDEN also that the Irish Ocean which runneth betweene Brittaine and Ireland is called by Sea-men at this day Saint GEORGE'S Chanell And lest that any part of the old World should not have some place in it of this name PATRITIUS tells us in the booke of his owne Navigations that one of the Azores is call'd St. George's Est D. Georgij insula c. 12 To draw up that together which hath beene formerly alleaged in Saint GEORGE'S cause I hope it will appeare that there is no occasion why hee should eyther bee reputed as an Arian or a Counterfeit a Larva nay why hee should not bee accounted to have as high a place in immortalitie as any of the other those blessed Spirits the Apostles excepted onely For if antiquitie may bee thought worthy of any credit wee have antiquitie to friend or if the common suffrages of so many famous and renowned writers successively in every age may bee of any reckoning with us Saint George may challenge as much interest in them as any in the Calendar However put case that they have erred in their relations of Saint GEORGE and that they tooke that evidence which out of them wee borrowed on trust from one another yet what shall bee replyed to this that in the Church of God hee hath beene hitherto reputed as an holy Martyr Shall wee conceive the Church of God would bee so carefull to preserve his memorie in the publike Martyrologies or give him place in their publike Liturgies or take such heed unto his Reliques or honour him with Temples had hee beene such a damnable and bloudie Hereticke or which they say is better if hee had never beene at all Or if hee had beene such may it bee thought that both the Church and all the learned members of it for 1300 yeares almost should be deluded no man in all that time able to see into the fraud or that the Spirit of God should quite abandon all the rest and settle onely on some two or three of later times who though they kept amongst themselves the Band of Peace had not as it appeares the Spirit of Vnitie Or last of all suppose the Monkes and Fryers should joyne together to put a tricke upon the world and that they had prevailed upon the Church to give countenance unto it shall wee conceive so poorely of the greatest Kings and Princes in the Christian world that they were all of them abused and drawne to do◠such honours to one which eyther never was a man or was now a Divell All this is hard to bee digested And wee may well bee counted easie of beleefe if onely on the ipse dixit of one man and the conjectures of another were they of greater reputation than they are wee should give faith unto their sayings to one of them I meane for both are not to be beleeved together when such a Cloud of Witnesses affirme the contrarie Catalogus testium veritatis a Catalogue of witnesses in all times and ages If men may be beleeved upon their bare assertion why may not they be credited which say Saint George was once a Martyr and is now a Saint as well as they which say he was not Or if wee will not take up any thing on trust without some reason for it why rather should not they bee worthy of beleefe which have good proofe for what they say than those that build upon conjectures ill-grounded and worse-raised Lastly if that may be beleeved most safely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the words of Aristotle which both the vulgar wits and more excellent spirits have agreed on joyntly still we are where we were and still St. George must be a Martyr But I am now for England where I am sure to finde as ample testimonies for St. George as any other part of the world what ever CHAP. VIII 1 St. George not anciently esteemed the Patron of the English 2 Churches erected to him here in England 3 His apparition to King Richard in the Holy Land 4 What may be thought in generall touching the apparition of the Saints 5 And what in this particular
be amisse to note that notwithstanding all the opposition made against him both heere among our selves and abroad with others St. George doth still retaine his place in our common Calendars Not in those onely made for the state of every yeare where commonly he shines in Festivall red letters as doe no other of the Saints but those whose Feasts are by the Church observed as Holy but also in the Calendar prefixed before the publike Liturgie of our most blessed Church of England where he is specially honoured with the name of Saint as is not any of the rest excepting those which saw our Saviour in the flesh Excellent evidence that as the state of England is much devoted to Saint GEORGE'S honour so he doth still preserve his place and reputation in the opinion of the Church An argument to me so powerfull and prevailing that in Morbonium the meere word or bare conjecture of every one of what especiall fame soever which guided by his private spirit shall resolve the contrary 8 I said the state of England is much devoted to Saint GEORGE'S honour and if we looke upon the Institution of the most noble Order of the Garter wee shall see cause inough to say it An Order of that excellencie that the mightiest Princes of Christendome have reputed it among their greatest honours to bee chosen and admitted to it the names and dignities of whom we shall see presently in our Catalogue of this Order A founder it had of a most accomplish'd vertue the Thunderbolt of Warre as some call Antiochus and in the times of Peace nothing inferiour to any of the Law-makers of the best ages so much celebrated Briefly wee may affirme of him as the Historian of Augustus the fittest paralell that I can finde for him amongst famous Princes Homo omnibus omnium gentium viris magnitudine sua inducturus caliginem This most excellent Prince the glorie of his times and a chiefe ornament of Europe having exceedingly prevail'd both against the French and Scottish Kings discomfited their Armies and taken one of them in person ordained this most noble Order and societie of Knights so to adorne their valour manifested in the Warres with honour the reward of vertue Their number 26. no more Vt pretium faciat raritas lest being else communicated unto many it might at last become despicable nor ever have our Kings exceeded in the number but still confined themselves unto the first intention of the Founder COVVELL in his Interpreter printed at Cambridge Anno 1607. relates the Institution of it thus EDVVARD the third after he had obtain'd many great victories King IOHN of France King IAMES of Scotland being both Prisoners in the Tower of London at one time and King HENRY of Castile the Bastard being expulsed and DON PEDRO restored by the Prince of Wales did on no weighty occasion first erect this Order Anno 1350. Of the occasion afterwards obâ—erving for the present how ill his Historie agrees with his Chronologie For true it is that this most noble Order was instituted on the 23. of this King which falls out rightly with the yeare 350. But then King IOHN of France was but newly entred on his Kingdome and the expulsion of King HENRY was the last act almost of that tryumphant Prince of Wales Don Pedro not comming into England till the thirty ninth of King Edward As much is he mistaken also in the name of the King of Scotland who was then Prisoner in the Tower which was not Iames but David there being no Iames King of that Country in more than fiftie yeares after For the occasion of it it is received generally that it tooke beginning from a Garter of the Queene or rather of Ioane Countesse of Salisburie a Ladie of incomparable beauty which fell from her as she danced and the King tooke up from the ground For when a number of Nobles and Gentlemen standing by laughed thereat he made answere againe that shortly it should come to passe that Garter should be in high honour and estimation adding withall these words in French Hony Soit qui maly pense Id est Shame bee to him that evill thinks which after was the Motto or Impresse of the Garter Which were it so saith Master Camden it need not seeme to be a base originall thereof considering as one saith nobilitas sub amore iacet He addes withall that some report how from his owne Garter given forth as a signall of a battaile which sped so fortunately hee call'd them Knights of the Garter But whatsoever the occasion of it was likely it is that it tooke this name from the blew Garter which the Fellowes of it weare on their left Leg carrying the foresaid impresse wrought with golden Letters and enchased with precious Stones and fastned with a buckle of Gold as with the Bond of most inward societie in token of unitie and Concord that so there might be a Communion as it were of vertues and good will amongst them Doctor Cowell reports in his Interpreter that he hath seene an ancient monument wherein it doth appeare that this most noble Order is a Colledge or Corporation having a Common seale consisting of the Kings of England as Soveraignes thereof or chiefe Guardians of it 25. Knights fellowes as they call them or Companions of the Garter 14. Canons resident beeing secular Preists 13. Vicars or Chorall Preists and 26. of the inferiour sort of gentrie militarie men call'd commonly Poore Knights of Windsore whereof indeed there are but twelve There belongs also unto this Heroicke Order the Prelate of the Garter which is the Lord Byshop of Winton for the time being a Chancellour a Register thereof which alwayes is the Deane of Windsore an Vsher which is one of the Vshers of the Kings Chamber called Black-rod and last of all a chiefe Herald even the most principall of all GARTER first King of Armes instituted by that victorious Prince King Henry the fifth to attend chiefly on this Order and doe them service at their Funerals 9 The Kings of England are as I said before the Soveraignes of this noble Order and either doe in person or by their lawfull Deputie by them nominated and appointed elect the fellowes of the Order and solemnize the Festivals and hold the Chapters To them it also appertaines to have the declaration reformation and disposition of the Lawes and Statutes of the said most noble Order Which Lawes and Statutes were first instituted and devised by the victorious Prince King Edward of that name the third after revised and ratified by many the succeeding Kings And on the Reformation of Religion much altered by King Edward of that name the sixt About this time saith Sir Iohn Hayward in his Historie of that Prince the Order was almost wholly altered as by the Statutes thereof then made it doth appeare A thing not to bee wondred at For even the Lawes of the most setled States and Kingdomes have beene
proofe of which and that we may behold what excellent Peeres and Princes of our owne and other Nations have in all times successively beene chosen into this most noble Order wee have adjoyn'd a Catalogue of all Saint GEORGE'S Knights from the first institution of it till the present Which Catalogue I have here layed downe according as I finde it in the Catalogue of Honour published by Milles of Canterbury adding unto him such as have beene admitted since that publication Hereafter if this worke may ever have a second birth and that I have ability to nde or meanes to search into the publike Registers of this Order I shall annex to every of them the time of their Creation as wee have done in all of them since the first of Queene ELIZABETH THE FIRST FOVNDERS as they call them of the Garter EDVVARD the III. Of ENGLAND and FRANCE c. being the Chiefe or Soveraigne of it EDVVARD the III. King of England HENRY Duke of Lancaster PETER Capit. de la Bouche WILLIAN MONTACVTE Earle of Salisburie IOHN Lord Lisle IOHN BEAVCHMP Knight HVGH COVRTNEY Knight IOHN GREY of Codnor Knight MILES STAPLETON Knight HVGH WORTHESLEY Knight IOHN CHANDOS Knight Banneret OTHO HOLLAND Knight SANCHIO DAMPREDICOVRT Knight EDVVARD Prince of Wales THOMAS BEAVCHAMP Earle of Warwicke RAPH Earle of Stafford ROGER MORTIMER Earle of March BARTHOLM de Burgherst Knight IOHN Lord Mohun of Dunstere THOMAS HOLLAND Knight RICHARD FITZ-SIMON Knight THOMAS WALE Knight NEELE LORENGE Knight IAMES AVDLEY Knight HENRY ESME Knight WALTER PAVELY Knight Which Founders being dead these following were in the time of the said Edward the third elected in their places according as their stalls became vacant by the death of any of the others viz. RICHARD of Burdeaux Prince of Wales and after King of England of that name the second LIONELL Duke of Clarence IOHN of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster EDMOND of Langley Duke of Yorke IOHN Duke of Brittaine and Earle of Richmond HVMFREY de Bohun Earle of Hereford WIâ—LIAM de Bohun Earle of Northampton IOHN HASTINGS Earle of Pembrooke THOMAS BEAVCHAMP Earle of Warwicke RICHARD FITZ-ALAN Earle of Arundell ROBERT VFFORD Earle of Suffolke HVGH Earle of Stafford GVISCARD of Engolesine Earle of Huntingdon INGELRAM of Coucy Earle of Bedford EDVVARD Lord Despencer WILLIAM Lord Latimer REYNOLD Lord Cobham of Sterborough IOHN Lord Nevill of Raby RAPH Lord Basset of Drayton Sir WALâ— MANNY Banneret Sir THOMAS VFFORD Sir THOMAS FELTON Sir FRANCIS VAN HALL Sir ALAN BOXHVLL Sir RICH. PEMBRVGE Sir THOMAS VTREIGHT Sir THOM. BANISTER Sir RICH. LA VACHE Sir GVY of Brienne RICHARD the II. KING OF ENGLAND and Soveraigne of the Garter Elected in his Time into the Order these that follow THOMAS of Woodstocke Earle of Buckingham and Duke of Gloucester HENRY of Lancaster Earle of Darbie and Duke of Hereford WIL. Duke of Gelderland WIL. Earle of Holland Hainault c. THO. HOLLAND Duke of Surrey IOHN HOLLAND Duke of Exeter THO. MOVVERAY Duke of Norfolke EDVVARD Duke of Aumerle MICHAEL DE LA POLE Earle of Suffolke WIL. SCROPE Earle of Wiltes WILLIAM BEAVCHAMP Lord Aburgevenny IOHN Lord Beaumont WIL. Lord Willoughby RICHARD Lord Grey Sir NICHOLAS SARNESFEILD Sir PHILIP DE LA VACHE Sir ROBERT KNOLLES Sir GVY of Brienne Sir SIMON BVRLEY Sir IOHN D'EVREVX Sir BRIAN STAPLETON Sir RIGH BVRLEY Sir IOHN COVRTNEY Sir IOHN BVRLEY Sir IOHN BOVRCHIER Sir THO. GRANDISON Sir LEVVIS CLIFFORD Sir ROBERT DVMSTAVILL Sir ROBERT of Namurs HENRY the IIII of that Name KING OF ENGLAND c. and Soveraigne of the Garter made Choice of HENRY Prince of Wales THOMAS of Lancaster Duke of Clarence IOHN Duke of Bedford HVMFREY Duke of Gloucester ROBERT Count Palatine and Duke of Bavaria THO. BEAVFORT Duke of Exeter IOHN BEAVFORT Earle of Somerset THO. FITZ-ALAN Earle of Arundell EDM. Earle of Stafford EM HOLLAND Earle of Kent RAPH NEVILL Earle of Westmerland GILBERT Lord Talbot GILBERT Lord Roos THO. Lord Morley EDVVARD Lord Powys IOH. Lord Lovell Edvv. Lord Burnell IOH. CORNVVALL Lord Fanhope Sir WIL. ARVNDELL Sir IOH. STANLEY Sir ROE VMFREVILL Sir THOM. RAMPSTON Sir THOM. ERPINGHAM Sir IOH. SVLBIE Sir SANCHIO of Trane HENRY the V. of that Name KING OF ENGLAND c. and Soveraigne of the Garter graced with the Order SIGISMVND King of Hungarie and Bohemia Emperour Elect. IOHN King of Portugall CHRISTIERNE King of Danemarke PHILIP Duke of Burgundie IOHN HOLLAND Duke of Exeter WILL. DE LA POLE Duke of Suffolke IOH. MOVVERAY Duke of Norfolke THOM. MONTACVTE Earle of Salisbury RICH. VERE Earle of Oxon. RICH. BEAVCHAMP Earle of Warwicke THOM. Lord Camoys IOHN Lord Clifford ROBERT Lord Willoughby WILLIAM Lord Bardolfe HENRY Lord Fitz-Hugh LEVVIS ROBSART Lord Bourchier HVGH STAFFORD Lord Bourchier WALTER Lord Hungerford Sir SYMON FELBRIDGE Sir IOH. GREY of Eyton Sir IOH. DABRIDGECOVRT Sir IOH. ROBSART Sir TRANK VAN CLVX of Germany Sir WILLIAM HARRINGTON Sir IOHN BLOVNT HENRY the VI. of that Name KING OF ENGLAND c. and Soveraigne of the Garter assumed into it ALBERT of Austria King of Bohemia Hungarie and Emperour of Germanie FREDERICK Duke of Austria and Emperour EDVVARD King of Poland ALPHONSO King of Arragon and Naples CASIMIRE King of Portugall EDVVARD Prince of Wales PET. Duke of Conimbria and HENRY Duke of Visontium both Sonnes to the King of Portugall The Duke of Brunswicke RICH. Duke of Yorke IOH. BEAVFORT Duke of Somerset EDM. BRAVFORT Duke of Somerset IASPER of Hatfeild Duke of Bedford IOHN MOVVBRAY Duke of Norfolke HVMPH STAFFORD Duke of Buckingham GASTON DE FOIX Earle of Longueville IOHN DE FOIX Earle of Kendall ALVARES D'ALMADA Earle of Averence IOHN FITZ-ALAN Earle of Arundell RICH. NEVILL Earle of Salisbury RICH. NEVILL Earle of Warwicke IOH. TALBOT Earle of Shrewsbury IOH. TALBOT Earle of Shrewsbury Sonne to the former IAMES BVTLER Earle of Wiltes WILL. NEVILL Earle of Kent RICHARD WIDDEVILL Earle Ryvers HEN. Viscount Bourchier Earle of Essex IOHN Viscount Beaumont IOHN Lord Dudley THO. Lord Scales IOHN Lord Grey of Ruthin RAPH Lord Butler of Sudeley LIONELL Lord Welles IOH. Lord Bourchier of Berners THOMAS Lord Stanley WILL. Lord Bonvill IOH. Lord Wenlocke IOH. Lord Beauchamp of Powys THOMAS Lord Hoo. Sir IOHN RATCLIFFE Sir IOHN FASTOLFE Sir THOMAS KYRIELL Sir EDVVARD HALL EDVVARD the IIII of that Name KING OF ENGLAND c. and Soveraigne of the Garter made Knights thereof FERDINAND King of Naples IOHN King of Portugall EDVVARD Prince of Wales CHARLES Duke of Burgundie FR. SFORZA Duke of Millaine FREDERICKE Duke of Vrbine HERCVLES Duke of Ferrara RICH. Duke of Yorke the Kings Sonne RICH. Duke of Gloucester IOHN MOVVBRAY Duke of Norfolke IOHN Lord Howard made afterwards Duke of Norfolke IOHN DE LA POLE Duke of Suffolke HENRY STAFFORD Duke of Buckingham IOHN NEVILL Marquise Montacute THOMAS GREY Marquise Dorset IAMES Earle of Douglas in Scotland WILL. FITZ-ALAN Earle of Arundell THOM. Lord Maltravers ANTH. WOODVILL Earle Ryvers WILL. Lord Herbert Earle of