loo Lionel's Will 



breviary], with musical notes; and a pair of vestments 

 [trousers ?] , striped white and red.*' 



in Atti della R. Accademia delle Sciense di Torino 34. 226, note i). At 

 this time he was called the Black Squire (there is a Green Squire men- 

 tioned under the year 1369 in M. H. P., p. 1018). On Sept. 17, at the 

 Green Count's camp near Carignano, he became the vassal of Amedeo 

 (Claretta, in Atti, as above, 19. 958). 



1362, Feb. 10, the acknowledgement of a debt of 100 florins is made to 

 him at Chambery. His wife is called Johannina, and he still the Black 

 Squire (Claretta, p. 960). Later in the same year he becomes the fifteenth 

 charter-member of the Order of the Collar, afterwards called of the 

 Annunciata, at its founding by the Green Count (Claretta, p. 953). In 

 the original documents he is called 'ung vailhant chivallier d'Engleterre, 

 bon et hardy' {M. H. P. 3 (Script, i). 295), and 'bonus, valens, et audax' 

 (ib. I. 612). The order was instituted in honor of the Fifteen Joys of the 

 Virgin. The collar was made of linked laurel-leaves, enameled in green, 

 with a pendant of three love-knots, having in tlie middle the Count's motto 

 FERT (cf. Encyc. Brit., nth ed., 15. 865). The knights were to be without 

 reproach, were not to forsake one another in life or death; and if any 

 occasion of dispute arose between them, the disputants were to submit 

 themselves to the judgment of the other members. Each knight was to 

 recite every day fifteen Aves, and a monastery was founded for the salva- 

 tion of the knights' souls, present and to come. On the occasion of the 

 founding, a mass was first sung, and then a banquet set forth. The 

 ordinances, which were proclaimed to the sound of trumpets and clarions, 

 provided that an unworthy member should be expelled, that they should 

 support widows and orphans, oppose false quarrels, and maintain loyalty. 

 Then Savoy Herald proclaimed silence, and the Green Count said: 'My 

 lords, know ye that I swear and promise to keep these laws, and I am 

 the first to take this collar, not as lord, but as brother and companion, 

 for it is an order of brethren.' After each had sworn his oath, and 

 received his collar, John of Vienne, Admiral of France, being one, they 

 all partook of the sacrament, kissed one another on the mouth, and sat 

 down to the feast, the Green Count last of all (M. H. P., as above, pp. 

 294-5)- The rest shall be told in the words of the chronicler (pp. 295-6) : 

 'Le service fust fait; la eust joye planyere; la furent dames et damoy- 

 selles; la fust cryee largesse; la eust acomplissement donneur, de joye 

 et de liesse a comble mesure de tous instrumens, et ainsy dura celle feste 

 trois jours, a joustes, a tournoys, a beours, a momeries a la nuyt jusques 

 au jour. Lon ne soroit raconter les desduys et plaisances qui la furent 

 faittes, et se il faisoit beau veoir les quinze chivalliers a tous leurz 

 quinze colliers, tous vestus de mesmez, il ne le faut desmander, et ainsy 

 fust encomensce lordre du noble collier de Savoye.' 



1366, May 27, he was with the Green Count at Pavia, where Amedeo 

 was one of the sponsors at the baptism of Valentina, daughter of Gian 

 Galeazzo. At this time the Count was on his way to the East for the 



