Thus I have run through all the Particulars, relating to the Institutions, Laws, and Ceremonies, of this most Noble Order; I shall in the last Place proceed to give a List of all those who have enjoyed this singular Mark of Honour from its first Foundation. The Motives which excited the Royal Founder to set on Foot the said Order, are already particularly treated of; who having established Rules and Statutes for the Government, and regulation thereof, he next resolved to elect, from among the Flower of his own Wars, twenty five of the most celebrated Knights, who, together with himself, should make up the Number of Twenty six; for of so many does the Order by his Appointment consist: And indeed that Age plentifully furnished him with Men of the most brave and celebrated Characters, and of signal Reputation in Arms, raised by the eminent Wars of those times, and justly distinguished by their own heroick Actions.

The first that he elected into this Noble Order, was Edward, his eldest Son, who already in part deserved, and afterwards justly obtained the Title of a Brave and Martial Prince, of whom our Histories speak so largely. The rest of his accomplished Collegues, were these that follow, and are thus placed in their Stalls.

CAP. XXVI.
A List of the Founders, and Catalogue of their Successors,
to the present time.

1 The Sovereign King Edward III.2 Edward Prince of Wales.
3 Henry, Duke of Lancast.4 Th. Beauchamp, E. War.
5 Piers Capitow de la Bouch.6 Ralph Stafford, E. Staff.
7 W. Montacute, E. Salisb.8 Rog. Mortimer, E. March.
9 Sir John Lysle.10 Sir Barthol. Burghersh.
11 Sir John Beauchamp.12 Sir John Mohun.
13 Sir Hugh Courteney.14 Sir Thomas Holland.
15 Sir John Grey.16 Sir Richard Fitz Simon.
17 Sir Miles Stapleton.18 Sir Thomas Wale.
19 Sir Hugh Wrotesley.20 Sir Nele Loring.
21 Sir John Chandos.22 Sir James Audeley.
23 Sir Otho Holland.24 Sir Henry Eam.
25 Sir Sanchet Daubrichcourt. 26 Sir Walter Paveley.

A Catalogue of their Successors, with the Blazoning of their Arms, corrected in above sixty Errors, in the Plates engrav’d in Ashmole.

Knights afterwards elected in the Reign of King Edward III.

27.

Richard of Bordeaux, afterwards King of England; of that Name the second.

Quarterly France ancient and England, a Label of three Points Argent on the middlemost, a Cross of St. George.

28. Lionel of Antwerp, Earl of Ulster, and Duke of Clarence.