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[44] Louis XIV. introduced the practice of dividing the members of military orders into several degrees when he established the order of St Louis in 1693.

[45] G. F. Beltz, Memorials of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (1841), p. 385.

[46] Heylyn, Cosmographie and History of the Whole World, bk. i. p. 286.

[47] Beltz, Memorials, p. xlvi.

[48] Orders of Knighthood, vol. i. p. lxxxiii.

[49] Mémoires, i. 67, i. 22; History of Chivalry; Gibbon, Decline and Fall, vii. 200.

[50] Orders of Knighthood, vol. i. p. xi.

[51] Selden, Titles of Honor, p. 638.

[52] Harleian MS. 6063; Hargrave MS. 325.

[53] Patent Rolls, 35th Hen. VIII., pt. xvi., No. 24; Burnet, Hist. of Reformation, i. 15.