Excerpt from Memorials of the Order of the Garter, From Its Foundation to the Present Time: With Biographical Notices of the Knights in the Reigns of Edward III. And Richard IIA disposition to investigate critically the history and nature of our early institutions, and the characters and actions of the eminent individuals by whom they were founded or sustained, was remarkably prevalent about the era of the Commonwealth, a season apparently unfavourable to the suc cess of such undertakings.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.