"We are informed that his Majesty is about to institute a new
order of knighthood, called _The Order of Minerva_, for the
encouragement of literature, the fine arts, and learned
professions. The new order is to consist of twenty-four knights
and the Sovereign; and is to be next in dignity to the military
Order of the Bath. The knights are to wear a silver star with
nine points, and a straw-coloured riband from the right shoulder
to the left. A figure of Minerva is to be embroidered in the
centre of the star, with this motto, 'Omnia posthabita
Scientiæ.' Many men eminent in literature, in the fine arts, and
in physic, and law, are already thought of to fill the Order,
which, it is said, will be instituted before the meeting of
parliament."--_Perth Magazine_, July, 1772.