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The History of the Most Noble Order of the Garter

Chapter 1: THE HISTORY Of the most NOBLE Order of the GARTER: And the several ORDERS of Knighthood extant in EUROPE.
By Elias Ashmole
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A detailed institutional history of the most prestigious chivalric order and comparable European knightly orders, tracing its medieval foundation, governing statutes and the development of Windsor's castle, chapel, and college. The text explains ceremonial procedures, investiture rites, regalia, officers' duties and financial arrangements, offers biographical notes on founders, and presents an illustrated roll of knights with coats of arms. Drawn from public records, heralds' manuscripts, and corrected authorities, the edition adds emendations, heraldic corrections and a continued list of members to the editor's present.

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Title: The History of the Most Noble Order of the Garter

Author: Elias Ashmole

Release date: March 22, 2015 [eBook #48555]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: English

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His Royal Highness GEORGE AUGUSTUS
Prince of Wales, &c. And Knight of the
most Noble Order of the Garter.


M. Vdr. Gucht Scul.

THE
 
HISTORY
 
Of the most NOBLE
 
Order of the GARTER:
 
And the several ORDERS of Knighthood extant in EUROPE.

Containing

I. The Antiquity of the Town, Castle, Chapel, and College of Windsor; with their several Officers: The Foundation of the ORDER by King EDWARD III. The Statutes and Annals at large, as they have been altered and amended.

II. The HABITS, ENSIGNS, and OFFICERS of the ORDER. The Ceremonies of Election, Investiture, and Instalment of Knights: The manner of their Feasts; and the Duties and Fees payable on these Occasions. Some Account of the Founders, with an exact List of all that have been installed since the Institution, and their several Coats of Arms emblazon’d.

Written at the Command of King Charles II. By ELIAS ASHMOLE, Esq; Windsor Herald. Now compared with the Author’s Corrections in his Library at Oxford, faithfully digested, and continued down to the present Time.

The Whole illustrated with proper Sculptures.

LONDON: Printed for A. Bell in Cornhill, E. Curll, J. Pemberton, and A. Collins in Fleet-street; W. Taylor and J. Baker in Pater-Noster-Row, 1715.

Price 7 s. 6 d.