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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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This Caftle is under the Government of a Conftable,focall’d in the Reign of King John, and has bore Aat Dend®mination ever lince : The Office is of great Antiquity,Honour and Power, but of fmall Revenue, for it is partlyMilitary and Civil; as Military he commands the Caftleand any Garrifon placed therein,and is obliged to defendit againft all Enemies whatfoever ; all the Prilonersbrought hither are committed to his Charge, and isanfwerable for all that is in the Caftle to the King, un-der whom he is Commander, as a Civil Officer. He isJudge of a Court of Record held there by Prefcription,tor determining, by way of Common Law, all Pleasbetween Party and Party, anting within the Precinflsof the Forell of Windfor, and Liberties thereof,which comprifeth many Towns ; and all legal Precedesiffue out in his Name. He is allowed a Deputy learnedin the Law, who is called the Steward of the Court ofRecord, and is Keeper of the Conftable’s Seal of Office*This Officer fupplies the Conftable’s Pmce as a Judge ofthe Court of Common Picas, from whofe Judgment theAppeal is by Writ of Error returnable in the King’s -Bench, or Common Pleas at Wejlminjler. The Conftable islikewife Fore Her and Warden of the Forcft of Wind-far, which is an no Miles in compals. He hath underhim one or more Lieutenants at his Pleafure, and mayimprifon any Trefpafier in Vert and Venifon Convict,having a Prifon in the Caftle for that Purpofe, namedthe Coalhole. He hath the Freedom of ufing the Sportsof theForeft, which is granted to no Perfon withouthis or the King’s Licenfe, and figns all Warrants to killDeer, (except what the King tigns) and is to fell Timberand Wood.

He that was Chaficlain (th e French Word for Confta-ble) in Wilhcm the Conqueror $ Reign was Walter F tx. 0:her,from whom the Family of the Barons of Wind er are de-fended, and the Earls of Phmcuth, bearing the Sur-name of Windfor, Temp. Car. II. Prince Rupert wasConftable.

We come next to the Chapel of St. George, which isfituate in the Lower Ward or Court of this Caftle, andfo named by King Edit. III. fhortly after he had found-ed the College mention’d in the next Section ; heha-

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