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Certes, I have not read of anything that having had so
simple a beginning hath grown in the end to so great honour and
estimation.[8]...
[8] Long details are given of Garter history, very inaccurate,
both here and in the last omitted passage.--W.
There is yet another order of knights In England called knights
bannerets, who are made in the field with the ceremony of cutting away
the point of his pennant of arms, and making it as it were a banner,
so that, being before but a bachelor knight, he is now of an higher
degree, and allowed to display his arms in a banner, as barons do.
Howbeit these knights are never made but in the wars, the king's
standard being unfolded.[9]...
[9] Derivations of "Esquire" and "Gentleman" are given.--W.
Moreover, as the king doth dub knights, and createth the barons and
higher degrees, so gentlemen whose ancestors are not known to come in
with William Duke of Normandy (for of the Saxon races yet remaining we
now make none accounted, much less of the British issue) do take their
beginning in England, after this manner in our times.


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