HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF 
dudum meus dedit illis in Baston et in 
Repingale.. ‘The same knight is men- 
tioned in a confirmation of Witlat to the 
same monastery: item donum Algari 
militis, silicet, Northland in Baston. 
Item donum ejusdem Algari militis in 
Repingale ; and there is added in this of 
Witlaf, item donum Oswini militis in 
Draytona. [Vide Selden. Titles of 
Honor, Part If. Sect. xxx111. ] 
| The ceremonies. and circumstances, 
says Selden (ut sup. Sect. xxxtv.) at the 
giving this dignity in the elder times 
- were of two kinds especially, which we 
_ may call courtly and sacred. ‘he courtly 
_ were the feasts held at the creation, giv- 
ing of robes, arms, spurs, and the like ; 
_ whence as in the stories. of other nations, 
-so in those of ours; armis militaribus donare, 
or cingulo militari, and such more phrases 
jare the same as wilitem'’ facere. ‘The sa- 
ered are the holy devotions, and what 
else was used in the church at or before 
the receiving of the dignity, whence also 
consecrare militem, was to make a knight. 
Those of the first kind are various in the 
memories that preserve them, and yet 
they are rarely or never without the 
_ girding with a sword, until in later ages, 
_\ wherein only the stroke on the neck or 
_ shoulder, according to the use at this 
_ day, hath most commonly supplied it. 
: The ancientest mention of any courtly ce- 
_ remonies used at the creation of a knight 
_ with us is in that of King Alfred, his 
Anighiing his grandchild Athelstan, that 
piseas afterwards king. Nametavus (saith 
_ William of Malmesbury, de gest. reg. 
‘lib. 2. cap. 6.) prosperum ei regnum olim 
_ imprecatus fuerat, videns et gratiose 
‘complexus speciei spectate pucrum et 
' gestium elegantiam ; quem ctiam. et 
) premature militem fecerat, donatum 
_ chlamyde coccinea, gemmato. baltheo, 
Yense Suxonico cum vagina aurea. 
'. These instances, to. which others 
~ might be added, are sufficient. to shew 
‘that the chivalrous ceremony of knight- 
‘hood long preceded the times of the 
Crusades, although incorporated frater- 
nities of knights were not known till 
» about that period. 
on 
_ the workewhich has called forth these ob- 
+ servations is executed, we shall extract 
‘the account which is given of » the 
Knights of the Holy Cross, or the Teu- 
tonic Order. 
~ The commencement of its establish- 
* ment, is to be ascribed to a. devout German, 
© Ann. Rev. Vor. II. 
THE ORDERS OF 
_ As a specimen of the manner in which... 
‘ constantly. 
' been customary, so soon as a new grand mas- 
‘ter is elected, to invest him with this ring, in 
6357 
who, with the permission of the then,exist- 
ing patriarchs, built and endowed an’ hospi- 
tal ior ihe sick pilgrims, who were his coun- 
trymen ; and likewise a chapel to the honour 
of the mother of our Saviour. In a short 
time many pious Germans were disposed to 
maintain so excellent an institution; the 
men of Bremen and Lubeck, in_ particular, 
distinguished themselves to a most eminent 
degree, and exhibited the utmost zeal for the 
good of this foundation. They not only 
courageously protected the pilgrims, during 
the siege of Acre, (the Ptolomaeus of the 
ancients,) but many of them became hospi- 
talers, and took care of the wounded. and 
sick. : 
<¢ Many persons of high rank likewise at- 
tended on the hospital ; and Pope Caelestin 
the TI. formerly instituted this society into 
a order, under the title of the Brothers of 
the German House, and of the Hospital of 
our biessed Lady of Jerusalem. 
«« His Holiness permitted them to elect a 
chief from amongst their own members ; and 
thereupon, they unanimously nominated 
Henry de Wallpott, a person descended from 
a very ancient and noble family, and whe 
in the year 1191, had become a_professed 
monk of the Order of St. Augustin. 
«¢ The ensign of the order, is a black cross 
with a border of silver ; and it is worn upon 
a white mantle, on the left side. The knights 
also bear ‘this cross with their'arms, upon a 
white field, in the same mapner as was gfant- 
ed to Henry de Wallpott, in 1193, by the Pope 
abovementioned. They have likewise the same 
cross upon the left breast of their daily outward. 
apparel ;.and round the neck, they usually 
wear a gold black enamelled cross, surmount- 
ed with a knightly helmet of massy gold, 
covered with a coating of dark blue enamel. 
This cross is somewhat of an oblong form ; 
and it is worn suspended from a rich watered 
black ribbon of the breadth of thiree fingers. 
But this cross has, been frequently altered and 
augmented ;.and John de Brienne, king of 
Jerusalem, in 1266,-adorned the same with a 
cross_of gold. , ; 
«¢ Herman de Salza, the fourth grand mas- 
ter of this order, having by his consummate 
prudence and superior abilities, found means 
KNIGHTHOOD. 
‘to terminate the unhappy dissentions exist- 
ing between’ Pepe Honorius the III. and 
the Emperor Frederick the 11. that ‘prince 
being'desixous ‘of conferring upon the grand 
master a signal mark of his gratitude, he to 
that:end,: not only granted the dignity of 
_Prince of the Empire, to him and his succes- 
sors; but likewise gave him his especial per~ 
mission, to charge the arms of the order with 
‘the Impérial Eagle. His holiness, as a proof 
of his esteem, presented him with a ring of 
great value ; enjoining him to wear the same 
Sirtce that epoch it has ever 
memory of a transaction equally meritorious 
and remarkable, ing 
© 
