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Lord Lilburne's authority, not in matters of taste alone, but in those which the world calls judgment and common sense, was regarded as an oracle. He cared not a straw for the ordinary baubles that attract his order; he had refused both an earldom and the garter, and this was often quoted in his honour. But you only try a man's virtue when you offer him something that he covets.
"What do you mean by that?" I demanded. "Nothing," said she, biting her lip. "Come, you are as ponderous as Dr. Johnson." "Then Mr. Fox proposed that his Grace should ride after me." Here Dolly laughed in her handkerchief. "I'll be bound," said she. "Then the duke went to York," I continued hurriedly; and when he came back we met him at the Star and Garter.
One is the first to hit on a rosette in her hair with a diamond in the centre, and she attracts every eye for a whole evening; another revives the hair-net, or sticks a dagger through the twist to suggest a garter; this one wears velvet bands round her wrists, that one appears in lace lippets.
And a call, pure, long and throbbing. Longindying call. Decoy. Soft word. But look: the bright stars fade. O rose! Castile. The morn is breaking. Jingle jingle jaunted jingling. Coin rang. Clock clacked. Avowal. Sonnez. I could. Rebound of garter. Not leave thee. Smack. La cloche! Thigh smack. Avowal. Warm. Sweetheart, goodbye! Jingle. Bloo. Boomed crashing chords. When love absorbs. War! War!
Besides these two crests, both of which the Marquis Montagu may have used, he certainly did use the Gryphon, issuant out of a ducal coronet, as this appears alone for his crest, on his garter plate, as a crest for Montagu, he having given the arms of that family precedence over his paternal coat of Nevile; the king- maker, likewise, upon his seal, gives the precedence to Montagu and Monthermer, and they alone appear upon his shield."
A new line was surveyed by West Auckland to Hexham, passing over Garter Fell to Jedburgh, and thence to Edinburgh; but was rejected as too crooked and uneven. Another was tried by Aldstone Moor and Bewcastle, and rejected for the same reason.
Having driven off Warbeck in his last visit to Ireland , he received extensive estates in England, as a reward for his zeal, and after the victory of Knock-doe , he was installed by proxy at Windsor as Knight of the Garter. This long-continued reign for such in truth it may be called left him without a rival in his latter years.
He avowed that the Queen of England was his very good friend, and said he had never yet broken his faith with her, and never would do so. She had sent him the Garter, and he had accepted it, as his brother Henry III. had done before him, and he would negotiate no peace which did not include her. The not very distant future was to show how much these stout professions of sincerity were worth.
Socks are attached no longer with the old-fashioned garter, but by aid of a little harness similar to that worn by pug-dogs. One traveller, after lacing his shoes, adjusted a contrivance resembling a black beetle on the knot to prevent its untying.
About his neck hung the order of the Garter, and several princely foreign orders; and wherever light fell upon him jewels responded with a blinding flash. O Tom Canty, born in a hovel, bred in the gutters of London, familiar with rags and dirt and misery, what a spectacle is this! We left John Canty dragging the rightful prince into Offal Court, with a noisy and delighted mob at his heels.
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