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block, in vvh'ch the fall is reeved, that so 

 by it am go->ds may be hauled and hoist- 

 ed into or OIP of the ship. 



GARN1SHEE, the party in whose 

 hands monty is attached, within the li- 

 berties of the city of London, so used 

 in the Sheriff ot London's court, because 

 he has had garnishment, or warning, not 

 to pay the money, but to appear and an- 

 swer to the plaintiff creditor's suit. 



GARNISHMENT, a warning given to 

 one tor his appearance for the better fur- 

 nishing of the cause and court. 



GARRISON, in the art of war, a body 

 of forces, disposed in a fortress, to defend 

 it against the enemy, or to keep the inha- 

 bitants in subjection ; or even to be sub- 

 sisted during the winter-season : hence, 

 garrison and winter-quarters are some- 

 times used, indifferently, for the same 

 thing ;" and sometimes they denote differ- 

 ent things. In the latter case, a garrison 

 is a place wherein forces are maintained 

 to secure it, and where they keep regu- 

 lar guard, as a frontier town, a citadel, 

 castle, tower, &c. The garrison should 

 always be stronger than the towns-men. 



GARTER, order of the, a military order 

 of knighthood, the most noble and ancient 

 of any lay order in the world, instituted by 

 King Edward III. This order consists 

 of twenty-six knights-Companions, gene- 

 rally princes andpeers, whereof the King 

 of England is the sovereign, or chief. 

 They are a college or corporation, having 

 a great and little seal. 



Their officers are, a Prelate, Chan- 

 cellor, register, king at arms, and usher 

 of the black rod. They have also a 

 dean, with twelve canons, and petty ca- 

 nons, vergers, and twenty-six pension- 

 ers, or poor knights. The Prelate is 

 the head. This office is vested in the 

 Bishop of Winchester, and has ever 

 been so. Next to the Prelate is the 

 Chancellor, which office is vested in the 

 Bishop of Salisbury, who keeps the seals, 

 &c. The next is the register, who by his 

 oath is to enter upon the registry, the 

 scrutinies, elections, penalties, and other 

 acts of the order, with all fidelity. The 

 fourth officer is garter, and king at arms, 

 being two distinct offices united in one 

 person. Garter carries the rod and scep- 

 tre at the feast of St. George, the protec- 

 tor of this order, when the Sovereign 

 is present. He notifies the elections of 

 new knights, attends the solemnity of 

 their installations, carries the garter to 

 the foreign princes, &c. He is the prin- 

 cipal officer within the college of arms, 

 and chief of the heralds. 



All these officers, except the prelate, 

 have fees and pensions. The college of 

 the order is seated in the castle of Wind- 

 sor, with the chapel of St. George, and 

 the chapter-house erected by the founder 

 for that purpose. The habit and ensigns 

 of the order are, a garter, mantle, cap, 

 George, and collar. The four first were 

 assigned the knights companions by the 

 founder ; and the George and collar by 

 Henry VIII. The garter challenges pre- 

 eminence over all the other parts of the 

 dress, by reason that from it the noble 

 order is denominated; that it is the first 

 part of the habit presented to foreign 

 princes, and absent knights, who, and 

 all other knights elect, are therewith 

 first adorned ; and it is of so great 

 honour and grandeur, that, by the bare 

 investiture with this noble ensign, the 

 knights are esteemed companions of the 

 greatest military order in the world. It 

 is worn on the left leg between the knee 

 and calf, and is enamelled with this mot- 

 to, HOJfl SOIT ttUI MAL Y PEKSE ; i. e. 



"shame to him that thinks evil hereof." 

 The meaning of 'which is, that King Ed- 

 ward, having laid claim to the kingdom 

 of France, retorted shame and defiance 

 upon him that should dare to think amiss 

 of the just enterprise he had undertaken, 

 for his recovering his lawful right to that 

 crown, and that the bravery of those 

 knights whom he had elected into this 

 order was such, as would enable him to 

 maintain the quarrel against those that 

 thought ill of it. 



The mantle is the chief of those vest- 

 ments made use of upon all solemn occa- 

 sions. The colour of the mantle is by 

 the statutes appointed to be blue. The 

 length of the train of the mantle only 

 distinguishes the Sovereign from the 

 knights companions. To the collar of 

 the mantle is fixed a pair of long strings, 

 anciently woven with blue silk only, but 

 now twisted round, and made of Venice 

 gold and silk, of the colour of the robe, 

 with knobs, or buttons, and tassels at the 

 end. The left shoulder of the mantle 

 has from the institution been adorned 

 with a large garter, with the device HONI 

 SOIT, &c. within this is the cross of the 

 order, which was ordained to be worn at 

 all times by king Charles I. At length 

 the star was introduced, being a sort of 

 cross irradiated with beams of silver. 



The collar is appointed to be compos- 

 ed of pieces of gold m fashion of garters, 

 the ground enamelled blue, and the mot- 

 to gold. 



The manner of electing a kmght com- 



