General principles of the religious orders ... Qualifications for
them ... Use of these orders to Palestine ... Modern history of
the Knights Templars ... Their present existence and state ...
Religious orders in Spain ... That of St. James ... Its objects
... Change of its objects ... Order of Calatrava ... Fine
chivalry of a monk ... Fame of this order ... Order of Alcantara
... Knights of the Lady of Mercy ... Knights of St. Michael ...
Military orders ... Imitations of the religious orders ...
Instanced in the order of the Garter ... Few of the present
orders are of chivalric origin ... Order of the Bath ... Dormant
orders ... Order of the Band ... Its singular rules ... Its noble
enforcement of chivalric duties towards woman ... Order of
Bourbon ... Strange titles of orders ... Fabulous orders ... The
Round Table ... Sir Launcelot ... Sir Gawain ... Order of the
Stocking ... Origin of the phrase Blue Stocking 332
CHAP. VIII. PROGRESS OF CHIVALRY IN ENGLAND, FROM THE NORMAN
CONQUEST TO THE CLOSE OF THE REIGN OF EDWARD II.
Chivalry connected with feudalism ... Stipendiary knights ...
Knighthood a compulsory honour ... Fine instance of chivalry in
the reign of Edward I. ... Effect of chivalry in Stephen's reign
... Troubadours and romance writers in the reign of Henry II. ...
Chivalric manners of the time ... Coeur de Lion the first
chivalric king ... His knightly bearing ... John and Henry III.
... Edward I. ... His gallantry at a tournament ... His
unchivalric cruelties ... He possessed no knightly courtesy ...
Picture of ancient manners ... Edward II. ... Chivalric
circumstance in the battle of Bannockburn ... Singular effect of
chivalry in the reign of Edward II. 382