. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages . ^, with its jousts andtournaments. The Order of the Knights of the Garter was instituted by him. The occasion of its institution is notestablished with certainty. The legend, Honi soit qui maly pense,—Evil be to him that evil thinks—is said toafford no basis for the vulgar belief that it was a result of theCountess of Salisburys happening to drop her garter at aball, and the kings picking it up. The Order consists oftwenty-four persons besides the

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