 In <unk> 's Chronicle , I. <unk> under the life of Edward III is the following curious passage : " About the 19 yere of this <unk> , he made a solempne <unk> at <unk> , and a greate <unk> and <unk> , where he <unk> , and <unk> <unk> , the order of the knyghtes of the garter ; <unk> be it some <unk> that this order began <unk> by kynge <unk> , Cure de Lyon , at the <unk> of the <unk> of Acres ; where , in his great <unk> , there were but 26 knyghtes that <unk> and surely abode by the kynge ; where he caused all them to were <unk> of blew <unk> about <unk> <unk> . And <unk> they were called the knyghtes of the blew <unk> . " I am obliged for this passage to John Fenn , Esq ; a curious and ingenious gentleman of East @-@ Dereham , in Norfolk , who is in possession of the most rare book whence it is taken . Hence some affirm , that the origin of the garter is to be dated from Richard I * and that it owes its pomp and splendor to Edward III . 
