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Commanders. 
Major-gen. Sir James Lyon 
Sir Colin Halkett 
Sir Benjamin Bloomfield 
Colonel Sir George-Adam 
Wood 
Sir Win. Roach. 
Officers of the Order. 
Chancellor —His Excellency Count Munfter. 
King of Arms —Sir George Nayler, (York. Herald, and 
Genealogift of the Bath.) 
Secretary —Sir Louis Moeller. 
Geneuiogift. —Henry Schaedtler, efq. 
Regijlrar —William Woods, efq. (Secretary to the 2d and 
3d Clafles of the Bath.) 
CXLVII. Order of St. George and St. Michael, at 
Malta; inftituted in 1818, by the direction of the Britifh 
government. The Governor of the ifland of Malta is 
Grand Matter; the Englilh Admiral, the Prefident of the 
Court of Appeal, and the Auditors, have been created 
Grand Croifes. The decoration is a liar, with feven 
points hirondelle, i. e. in imitation of fwallows’ tails, (the 
crofs of Malta, or St. John of Jerufalem, has four fuch 
double points,) having a medallion in the centre, with 
St. George of Cappadocia on one fide, and the archangel 
St. Michael on the other. Above this feven-pointed liar 
is the royal crown ; and it is worn pendent to a fcarlet 
ribbon edged blue. 
The badges of moll orders of Knighthood are dif¬ 
ferently-formed croifes of four radii only ; this has feven 
radii, whereby it lofes every pretenlion to the facred cha- 
radter of a crofs, and becomes more like the fpokes of 
a wheel. Nor can we conceive what St. Michael has to do 
with it: St. Paul has always been regarded as the tutelar 
faint of Malta, from a tradition (founded on Adds xxvii. 
xxviii.) that the velfel in which he was lent prifoner to 
, Rome was wrecked at the north point of the entrance of 
the port now called St. Paul. But this is the age of or¬ 
ders ; and, when every thing that is reafonable is ex- 
liaufted, nothing is left but a choice of abfurdities. 
To OR'DER, v. a. To regulate; toadjuft; to manage; 
to conduct.—To him that ordereth his converfation aright, 
will I Ihew the falvation of God. Pf. 1 . 23.—Thou haft 
ordered all in meafure, number, and weight. Wifi. xi. 20. 
—Bias, being alked how a man Ihould order his life? an- 
fwered, As if a man Ihould live long, ordie quickly. Bacon. 
—To manage; to procure.—They fpake againft God; 
they faid, Can God furnifh [in the margin, order ] a table 
in the wildernefs ? Pfalm lxxviii. 10. 
The kitchen-clerk, that hight digeftion, 
Did order all the cates in feemly wife. Spenfer. 
To methodize; to difpofe fitly : 
So well inftrudted.,are my tears, 
That they would fitly fall in order'd c ha rafters. Milton. 
To direct; to command.—Build an altar unto the Lord 
thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place. 
Judges vi. 26.—To ordain to lacerdotal function.—-The 
book requireth due examination, and giveth liberty to 
objeft any crime againft fuch as are to be ordered. Whit- 
gifi- 
To OR'DER, v. n. To give command ; to give direc¬ 
tion: 
So fpake the univerfal Lord, and feem’d 
So ordering. Milton's P. L. 
ORDERER, f. One that orders, methodifes, or regu¬ 
lates.—That there ftiould be a great difpofer and orderer 
of all things, a wife rewarder and punilher of good and 
evil, hath appeared fo equitable to men, that they have 
concluded it necelfary. Suckling. 
ORDER'ICUS VITA'LIS, an ecclefiaftical hiftorian of 
the twelfth century, was born in England, about the year 
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1075, at Atlingefiiam, a village on the banks of the river 
Severn; though he was of French defeent, his father 
being a native of Orleans. In the eleventh year of his 
age he was fent to Normandy, where he took the religi¬ 
ous habit in the abbey of Uticum, or St. Evroulf, follow¬ 
ing the example of his father, who had become a widower 
and embraced the monaftic life. In the year 1091, when 
he was about the age of lixteen, he was ordained fubdea- 
con ; and, in 1108, when he was in his thirty-third year, 
he received prieft’s orders from the hands of the archbi- 
fiiop of Rouen. He fpent his life in the ftation of a lim- 
ple monk, without filling any of the polls belonging to 
liis order, wholly occupied in ftudy and devotion. He 
w'as employed by his abbot as hilioriographer to the mo- 
naftery, which was an office afiigned to fiome of the more 
learned monks in many of the Benedidtine convents of 
the day ; and the produce of his labours was the great 
work which he entitled his Ecclefajlical Hiflory,\n 13 
books; containing the hiftory of the Chriftian Church 
from the birth of Chrift to the year 1142. This work, 
though it abounds in the fables and legendary tales 
which were univerfally received in the age of Orderic, 
alfo furnilhes many interefting fadts,- not to be met with 
elfewhere, which relate to the hiftories of Normandy, 
France, and England. It was firit edited by Duchefne, 
among his HiftoriaeNormannorum Scriptores, 1619, folio; 
and it is deferving of being prefented to the public in a 
more corredt form. He djed about the year 1143. See 
Baron Maferes’s Hi/l.- Anglicance Seleffa Monument a, 1807. 
ORDERING,/! Difpolition, diftribution.—Tliefe were 
the orderings of them in their fervice. 1 Chron. xxiv. 19. 
ORDERLESS, adj. Diforderly, out of rule : 
All form is formlefs, order orderlefs, 
Save what is oppolite to England’s love. Shahefpeare. 
ORDERLINESS, f. Regularity ; methodicalnefs. 
ORDERLY, adj. Methodical; regular.—-The book 
requireth but orderly reading. Hooker. — Obfervant of 
method: 
Then to their dams 
Lets in their young ; and w : onderous orderly, 
With manly liafte, dilpatcht his houfwifery. Chapman. 
Not tumultuous; well regulated.—Balfour, by an orderly 
and well-governed march, palled in the king’s quarters, 
without any confiderable lofs, to a place of iafety. Cla¬ 
rendon.—According with eftablilhed method.—As for the 
orders eftablilhed, lith the law of nature, of God, and man, 
do all favour that which is in being, till orderly judge¬ 
ment: of decilion be given againft it, it is but juftice toexadl 
obedienceofyou. Hooker. —A clergy reformed from popery 
in fuch a manner as happily to preferve the mean between 
the two extremes, in doctrine, worlliip, and government, 
perfedled this reformation by quiet and orderly methods, 
free from thole confufions and tumults that elfewhere at- 
tendedit. Atterbury. 
Orderly Serjeant, and Orderly Men, in military 
language, are thole who are appointed to attend on ge¬ 
neral officers, or fuch other officers as are entitled to fuch, 
who walk behind them with their arms. And the O, - 
dcrly Book, is a book provided for every company, in 
which the ferjeants write down both general and regi¬ 
mental orders, that the officers may read them. 
ORDERLY, culv. Methodically; according to order ; 
regularly; according to rule.—All parts of knowledge 
have been thought by wife men to be then moll orderly 
delivered and proceeded in, when they are drawn to their 
firft original. Hooker. —It is walled with brick and ftone 
intermixed orderly. Saudys. —How Ihould thole adtive par¬ 
ticles juftled by the occurfion of other bodies, whereof there 
is an infinite (lore, lo orderly keep their cells without any 
alteration of life. Glanville. —In the body, when the prin¬ 
cipal parts, the heart and liver, do their offices, and ail 
the inferior fmaller veiiels a <51 orderly and duly, there 
arifes a fweet enjoyment upon the whole, which we call 
health. South's Sermons. 
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Sir George Nayler 
Lieut.-colonel CutlifFe 
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