GAR 
height. Aft ter a fhort time it fhrunk as much below the. 
level, and moved flowly towards the fouth fide; and in 
half an hour it covered twenty acres of land. The improved 
land adjoining to that part of the mofs, which moves in a 
concave circle, containing near 100 acres, is nearly filled up 
with mofs and. water, aad in for Asa is thought to be 
five ya , ne family i abe ut of their houfe, 
which 1s Ae furrounded, and th e fabric j 18 araeee down. 
The the mofs, which is tank like the bed of a river, 
runs Las a fouth, and is above a mile in ‘i ength, and half 
a mile in breadth. When the mofs began to move, a man 
was pafling over it from the weft, who ae. to his died 
aftonifhment, that the ground moved. fouthwar 
fpeedy retu urn, fe had the good fortune to efcape fue 
fwallowed 
TACH, a town of ‘Wurtemberg, on a {mall river 
which runs eh the Necker; 5 miles N.W. of. Heilbru 
G or Garo, a town of Germany, in the prin- 
cipality .of Lanebure. Zell 48 miles E.S.1. of Lune- 
urg. 
GARTEMPE, a river of France, which runs into the 
Creufe, near Roche-Pofay, in the department of the Indie 
and Loire. 
GARTER, qieioxer,a ligature to keep up the ftockings ; 
it is — particularly ufed for the badge or cognizance of a 
noble order of ney hence neal ated the 
Gar mi order, next in dignity 
after the sou ftitated by aad Edward IIT. in 1344, 
under the title o “« fovereign and knight ne 
of the moft noble or — of the Garter 
is order confilts of twenty-fix ea ghts, or companions, 
‘generally peers or princes; whereof the king of England is 
the fovereign, or chief. 
The habits and enfigns of this order, moft of which have 
been occafionally varied, with regard to their form, materials, 
or colour &c. ae of the garter, mantle, furcoat, hoo d, 
George, ane colla 
he oes dengemaccn to the order, and is aeened 
fo ae that the eed invettiture with it makes the 
ceives that honour, a 
ib — in the 
> g. 1d. 
es 712 "to hin ae thinks co, i eof; oe is ere on 
garter in folid gold; and they bear this motto furrouinding 
arms. The buckle a i 
‘The meaning of the m be, that ne 
Edward, having me claim to the ne Ge France, re 
Shame and defian e upon him that fhould dare to thine mits 
of the juft eae: he had — for recovering his 
Jawfel right to that crown; and that the bravery of thofe 
nights whom elected into this order was fuch as 
would nae le ae ns maintain the quarrel againft thofe who 
thought ill of it. 
They are a college or corporation, having a great and 
little feal ; cn officers are a prelate, chancellor, Ase 
garter king at arms, and the en or bla ck rod. 
Befides “which, they have a dean and twelve canons, with 
petty canons, vergers, and twenty-fix penfioners, or poor 
ni 
The prelate i is the head ; z and the office is vefted in th 
hefter ; next o him is the chancellor, which 
h i0 keeps the 
"The office of regifter is annexed to the deane f 
Windfor, All thefe officers, except the prelate, have fees 
-and penfions. 
You. XV. 
oie ae of the moft - 
‘cap by a 
tea -caps and feathers, ut the 
GAR 
The order is under the patronage. and arena of St. 
George of Cappadocia, the tutelar faint of. this ck aa 
Their college is held at the cattle of- Windfor, within ¢ he 
chapel of St. George, and the chapter-houfe, erected 
fied ie that pur oe 
ecked with gold a 
be e worn daily © 
coat, high elven. cap, collar of SS’s, ene 
enamelled, &c. 
e mantle is the chief of thofe vefiments made ufé of 
on igs earn Iti is of blue velvet lined with: white 
ats 
gr roles 
t the beginning of the rei of king 
The colour of thefe mantles is, ths fo peng 3 
atute, appointed to be blue; and it fo continued till t 
Elizabeth, when it 
the 
three or four welts drawn down the fides ae neat the 
bottom, 
a furcoat, or kirtle, as en as the mantle, was arise A 
mpo ofed o wo oollen cloth, and fo continu ed, ft till 
“Tl ie hood was tormerly worn on the head at all public 
cer emonies, and made of the fame materials as the mantle, 
om: 
ric 
of heron’s feathers; thefe a are pore’ fixed to the 
band nonds, of wearing thefe 
reat Caan of die order, had 
-fometimes been omitted, in oad before the reign of James I., 
and therefore, in a chapter held on the 13th of A 
ril, in his 
roth year, the cultom of wearing the cap aud feathers was 
eftabhfhed. 
The collar of the iat is ae gold, weighing ; 30 ounces 
roy 5 it is ae epee ae in the @ 
he fovercign and a i ight wear in common t the ae 
adge, a figure of St. George within the garter, all of gold, 
(called the beter ce eorge) appendant to a broad deep blue 
ribbon, which ties on their left fhoulder, and paffes thence 
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