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tarn, ut cujus virtute semper ac vigore proteBus, per hoses tutus abeas , eosubique super are valeas , & praclarisimis denique mentis, post egregiam banehujus temporis militiam, ad œterna, vereque triumphalia gaudia pertingas.
Sic Anglice.
" Receive this Robe of heavenly Colour, (the Livery of this most excellent" Order) in Augumentation of thine Honour, enobled with the Shield, and" Red Cross of our Lord , by whose Power thou may'st safely pierce Troops“ of thy Enemies, and be over them ever victorious ; and being in this“ temporal Warfare glorious in egregious and heroick Actions, thou may'st" obtain eternal and triumphant joy.”
Cœteris insignibus qmbus claret hie or do, conspeSliusgeritur collare ; collare es exauro obryzo ; contexiturque perpetud periscetidum minutarum J'erie , unitas An-gliæ rosas cingentium, vincutifque elegantibus ad invicem connexarum ; cui ap-pend! solet imaguncula Saudh Georgii draconem conscientis fupinatam , fed equosimul & fesori atrociter minantem, qua quidem ex adamantibus plurimis & in-gentibus ajfabre compaghiata, non minus ante quam pretio Jplendet.
Hoc cervix principis circumdata es, repetitd , per cancellarium, oratiunculdsupra memoratd, viz.
“ Wear this Collar about thy Neck, &c. changing only the Word Rib-band for Collar.
Deinde capitium ex holoserico nigro , catenelld adamantind cindium, plumdquecandidd decorum imponebatur .
Fulgens denique tot tantisque heroicis ornamentis, virtutibus ipse fulgentior,sallum (a dextrdsupremi primum) ascendebat.
Augetur interim sociorum nutnerus mexpedlato accejfu rtWr Levin iæ, & comitisKelliæ.
In super, opera pretium eji meminifse, ad augendam solennitatem, huc con-fluxifse vencr andijsmoi anti sites Cult. archiepif Cantuariensem, GulielmumLondinenftm magnum Angliæ thesaurarium, Matthæum Eliensem, capellœ regiœdecanum j aliosque viros prcecellentes, prater capellanos regies, regiique choriminisros Jymphoniacos ; noc non alios e clero complures ; qui ad unum ornnes, tita-nium (procedendo) decantabant, donee totam capellam, & aream, qua c£ mi-ter io desmata es ; perlusrasent, partim candidis, partim sotis byjininis, qua-liter canomci noftrates ex fracepto solent, partim denique acupiSlis, auroque in-tertextis , induti ; sacra huic agmini coryphaum ponebat honoratisima commiti-tonum fraternitas, ipforumque pars optima maximum Carolus uterqueslius priti-ceps, paterque Supremus.
In bis proceffionibus, ipse augusijswius rex, nec non Supremus sub cœlo por-tal! ti, sve umbraculo ex holoserico conjeSlo, pergebat , columnis quatuor ar gent edsuffulto, cujus faciem superiorem occupabant regalia insignia, auro gemmisque V 1 'tertexta ; alteram faciem emblemaspiritus Janetisub Jpecie columbce descendentibillusrabat.
Supremo quoque viginti principum filii, partim didlœ umbrella:, partistrabeæ clongata gesanda gratia, famulabantur.
Hos omnes dum spedlaret serenisima regina, e senesris camera qua ad eiir®'ausralem angulum capella propendet, non sine honorario objequio pratereunRhingenti dulcedine capta es.
Quis cnim nuretur, tanta protis augusam matrem, ad ccnspedtum tarnpend£, in jjho ocienni, indolis regia, perculjam quaji & attonitam ? cum infexercitatisimos commilitones pauci tune juerant, qui operosa iltius tridui mun^ 1tarn exabta obfervantid, tarn dulci decore, tarn indefejja, usque ad extreme> patient id, abjoherint ; tejles appello, rorantes jpeffatorum ocules , prorumj
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