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Geo n the fovereign is prefent, nd notifies. the 
eleCtion ee fuch as are newly ~chofe en j attends the folemnity of 
their inftallations, and takes care of placing their arms over 
their feats; and carries the garter to foreign ings and 
princes, for which fervice it has been ufual to join him in 
commiffion with fome peer, or other perfon of diftinc- 
tion. 
Garter’s cath relates ee to fervices being performed 
within the order, and is ‘taken in chapter before the fove- 
reign and 1ts. - His oath, as king at arms, is taken be- 
fore the earl marfhal. The fucceffive garter kings of arms 
have been conftituted, for fome ages pait, by their refpective 
patents cy n prin cipalem regem rrnoru m Anglicorum, et 
arnicrum inclyti ordinis Garteri;”’ 
ha have the fol 
lowing account o eek eiq. 
who himfelf filled the “fala ere 
tA17, for the fervic ice Gf noble 
foverel a ent the 
office of arms, over all other oflicers, fubject to the crown 
of ae by the name of “Garter Kin of Arms of 
nd. is patent he is filed principal ning of 
Englifh arms, and principa eae of arms of the -mo 
power to execute ie faid 
office by himielf, or deputy, C 
ftitution of his office, he muh be ‘a native of England, and 
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before the fword in folemn proceedings, none 
eee the Conftable and Matha to adminifter the oath to 
fficers of arms } 0] ve 
procure to be done, what the fovereign fhall enjoin, relating 
Prin- 
to the order ; with other duties incident to his office of 
cipal King of Arms; for the execution whereof he hat 
a falary of 1co/. a year, payable at the Exchequer, and 
toom tore out of the revenue of the order, befides 
fees.”? 
GarrTeEr isalfo a term in Heraldry, fignifying the moiety, 
or half of a bend. 
ARTH, Sir cede in Biography, an excellent poet 
and phyfician, was born of a good SS cr cadga i and 
educated at ised houfe college in Cam e, where he 
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College of Phy 7licians on the 26th of June, 1692. 
time the college was embroiled in a difpute, m. confequence 
of a charitable inftitution ace they had refolved to efta- 
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Dr. ler difapproving the behaviour of. the apo 
as well as fome members of the cae in this affair, re+ 
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folved to expofe them in a fatire 5 which he saga Sc eXer 
with peculiar ‘{pirit t arid vivacity, in’ his admirable 
The Difpenfary.”” "The firft edition of this 
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impreflions in a few months, in confequence of which fuccefs 
e afterwards made many additions and cor Bastar : ue in 
moft entitled to eee e as a 
yator. In this oration he ridiculed: t e mul- 
tifarious ee Tes er the quacks with a juft pate and i inimiitas 
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So mach ey merit gained him a high reputation as a 
polite fcholar, and introduced him to the faciety and friend- 
ay noble men 
"tupport ag a warm ees ce a fuccelfon | in 
the } houfe of Hanover. On ‘be acceffion. of king George I. 
to the throne, Dr. Garth had the aes of nighted 
the king’s phyfician j in irene , and ‘yf el to the 
army. He is faid to have extenfive practice, 
which has rarely fallen : the lot of phyficians who: have e com- 
menced their career by the cultivation of poetry, In his 
practice he conducted himfelf with great moderation as to 
his views of pecuniary rew ard, and with a ftri& regard” to 
nour and intereft of the faculty, wae dye to 
, through mean an 
lar and wealthy apothecaries. In a 
this principle, he concurred with 
Radcliffe, with whom he was often joined in medical con- 
fultation. 
_ The difeafe which ee ‘him, and terminated with his 
in ry, 17 oned a general concern, os 
was andi | reel i lord Lanfdown, abr 
ugh of a different party, in aes vel, 
Mr. Pope, in one of his | Hew 
buried in fie church of CHarrow-on-the-FIill, on the 22d ‘of 
nuary. See Biograph. Did. Eloy. Dict: Hitt. 
nTH is ufed in fome parts of England for a ‘little 
backfide or clofe. It an 
in ees ia fignifies garden, and is pronounced and. 
written gar 
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ARTH, a term fometimes employed to denote a {mall 
Sele a. or croft.” It is alfo applied to a dam, ) 
wear 
Gartu-men is ufed in our ftatutes for thofe who etch 
fifth by means‘of fifh-garths or wears. 
By eure as is TS that ro fifher nor ania fall 
ufe any net ities to deftroy the fry of fith, &c. 
17 Ric Th. ca The word is fuppofed by fome to be 
derived om the Scotch word gaits which fignifies fone or 
compelled ; hecaufe filh are oe" by the wear to = 
i. w where they are tal 
. GARTZ, or, Gas 
in the ifland of Rugen ” built on the 
called * Carenz,’” which was deftroyed by the 
Pomerania, in the 12th century —Alfo, a town of iaanie 
Pomerania, on the Oder, furrounded with walls in 1258 ; 
15. miles $ of Old Stettin. N. lat. 53° 16... E long. 
14” 28". . 
iQ? os GARU, 
Gi cography, a town of Pomeean 
icite of an ancient city, 
tis an ancient Britifh” word. “Gardd, | 
duke of 
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