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The History Of the most Noble Order of the Garter : Wherein is set forth An Account of the Town Castle, Chapel, and College of Windsor; with their several Officers ; The Foundation of the Order by King Edward III. ; With the Statutes, and Annals at large, as they have been altered and amended ; An Account of the Habits, Ensigns and Officers of the Order ... To which is prefix'd, A Discourse of Knighthood in General, and the several Orders extant in Europe
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Advocate of this Holy Chevalry. Their Govern-ments in the principal Convent, were to be de-bated by Five Councils, in the Prefence of the Prince:i. The Quotidian Council, confiding of Twenty-four :a. The Particular confiding of about Fourty :3. The Grand Council confiding of Eighty. 4. TheGeneral Chapter held every Year. And, 5. TheUniverfal Chapter to be held every Fourth or SixthYears, confiding of a Thoufand Knights of theChevalry. The Principal Officer was the Grand JtiJU-ciary, the next the Grand Bailiff: In the Chief City,and in every City and Cadle of theirs, one was to ad-minider Judice called a Pote/iate. In the generalChapter was to be an Officer called the Senator , and inthe Univerfal Chapter a D'tBator with Coadjutors andAffidants.

In the principal Convent were to beTenExecuters ofJudice, and Four dyled Charitable Commiflaries, whofeOffice was, to provide for Widows and Orphans; andwhereas this Order was made up of Eight leveral Lan-guages, and as many Notaries, who put on the Habitof the Brothers ; for the greater Regularity of theirOrder, they were to bind themfelves by Oath tothe Obfervance of thefe Three Points, Obedience toSovereigns, Poverty of Spirit, and Conjugal Chadity.They were allotted for their Maintainance, the PolTef-fion of Cities, Cadies, err. Gold, Silver, © N <r. and allto be in common, err.

There was to belong to the Cadle or Principal Con-vent a Church of marvellous Structure ; it was defign’dFifty Cubits in breadth, without any Pillars, a Hun-dred Cubits long, and in height Twenty-five ; likewifean Hofpital, where the Widows of the Holy Chevalryfhould attend upon the Sick and Infirm; a Baptidery orFont, for the Baptizing the Children of the Knights;a ftately Palace, with a great Hall and large Confido-rses, to contain the Prince and Council with their Re-tinue ; with a large and delightful Cloider for the Carnons and Clerks; together with a very fpacious Palace,to entertain the Princes of the Wejl when they camethat Way, either to War, or upon Pilgrimage : InAnfj there was to have been Three chiefHalls. wherein

 
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