| Generally borne in the form of a circle buckled and nowed, with ornamented end pendent, as the Garter is sometimes divided and called a Demi Garter, or Perclose. A Garter, with Motto, is now very frequently met with surrounding the Arms, Crest, or Cyphers, of persons who are not members of any Order of Knighthood, and who, therefore, have in reality no right whatever to it. |