first monarch

James I, who added the thistle, entwined with the rose, in the scroll on the royal arms, which bears the motto, Dieu et mon Droit. It is to this that Swift seems to refer, as no such alteration was made in the collar of the Order of the Garter.

Note by Henry Craik to The Author's Preface from Tale Of A Tub

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