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THE L I F E O F

Charles R.

" y'-'v U R most dear, and entirely beloved Son, having to our great Com-" V_y fort seen, and considered the Ripeness of your Youth, and conceiv’d“ joyful, and pregnant Hopes of your manly Virtues, in which we are assured," you will increase to your own Honour, both in Prowess, Wisdom, Justice,“ and all princely Endowments ; and that the Emulation of Chevalry will in“ your tender Years provoke and encourage you, to pursue the Glory of heroick" Actions, befitting your royal Birth, and our Care and Education. We with" the Companions of our most noble Order of the Garter , assembled in Chap -“ ter, holden this present Day at our Castle of Windsor , have elected and“ chosen you one of the Companions of our Order. In Signification whereof,“ we have sent to you by our trusty, and well-beloved Servant, Sir John“ Burroughs , Knight of the Garter , and our principal King of Arms, these“ our royal Letters, requiring you to make your Ipeedy Repair unto us, to" receive the Ensigns of our most honourable Order, and to be ready for your" Installation, upon the twenty-second of this present Month.

" Given under the Signet of our Order, at our Castle of Windfir>" the 2\Jl of May, in the 14 th Year of our Reign, 1638.

" To our dearly beloved Son, Prince Charles."

Hie antem opportune, scriba, a Supremo doccri petiit supplex, num eandetiiipsammet sormam principi obfiringendo, perlegeret, quam reliqui omnes, (in ot'dinem cooptandi) praflabant, juramenti.

Ipsstimam (inquit) ver bis confuetis propone ; quod & faStum est.

Accedcntem igitur, non fine debita veneratione ad thronum Supremi, exultsplcnis affect 1 bus excipit augustus Pater ; statimque perifcelide , adamantium jul'goribus coruscante, lavam cingit tibiam ; repetente cancellario hancsormulain «

Adgloriam Dei omnipotent is, & honor em decusque tuum , cinge tibiam tnarfhoc insgni perifcelide, circumserens insignum, ac memoriam illullrifiimi ordinihnusquam obsivioni dandum aut omittendam, quod eo moneris, ut valeas, & velis kjusto hello, quod Jolum inibis, stare fir mis er , agere for tit er , & feliciter omr 0 °vincere.

Qua nostro idiomate sic sonat.

" To the Glory of Almighty God, and for thine Honour and Renov/li," tye about thy Leg this noble Garter ; wear it as a Symbol of the most ilse'" strious Order ; never to be forgotten, or laid aside ; that thereby thou may’^" be admonished to be courageous, and having undertaken a just War, iM“ which only thou shalt be engag’d, thou may’st stand firm, valiantly 'sigik,“ and successfully conquer.” } b

Deinde iconem, SanSii Georgii, gemma insculptnm, V carulea vitteS Wnexam, collo principts Supremus appendit,—cancellario pergente, in hac fioniid

I or quern hunc in collo defer es ad augmentum honoris, & in fignum quotfi,clariffimi ordinis a te suscepti, cum imagine sanbliffimi martyris ac Chrijii ifhtis Georgii, cujus imitatione provocatus, mundi hujus tarn projpera quam sversa fie pertranseas, ut_ animœ parker ac corporis hoftibus hie Jtrenue devi$ unon temporaries modo militias gloria, fed & perennis in Hor ice palmam denitf^recipere valeas.

Nostro idiomate.

“ Wear this Ribband about thy Neck, adorn’d with the Image of ^" blessed Martyr, and Soldier of Chrijl St. George ; by whole Imitation

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