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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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ving pulled down the old Chapel ere&ed there byKing Henry I. and dedicated to King Edward the Conj-e£'or yto raife a more {lately Structure in its Head 3 to bringwhich Matter to Perfection, in the 24th Year of hisReign, John de Spottier had th’e Office of Matter of theStone-Hewers, and had Power to provide Mafons, andother Artificers, to whole Care they were entrufted.In Anno 25. Ed. I. John de Dorchejler, Sub-Conftable ofthe Cattle, was appointed to keep a Controul upon allthe Provifions bought for the Works of the Chapel, aswell as on the Payments, and all other Affairs relatingthereunto. To this Fabrick he creeled feveral Houfesadjoining, for the Cuttos and Canons to refide in 5 andafterwards King I-Ien. IV. gave them the void Place inthe Cattle call’d the V/oodbali, nigh the great Hall, forbuilding of Houfes and Apartments for the Vicars,Clerks, and Chorifters, and the other Minifters, affignedfor the Service of the Chapel 3 but King Edit. IV. ob-ferving the Walls and Foundation of the Chapel lappedand confumed, and efteeming the Fabrick not {lately orfpacious enough, defigned another more noble and ex-cellent in its Room : In order to it Richard Beauchamp,Bifhop of Salisbury, was cor.ttituted Matter and Survey-or of the Work, who had Power from the King to re-move all Impediments, demolifhed divers of the Offi-ciary Houles, and other irregular Piles and decay’d Walls,and dug up their Foundations, particularly thofe ancientBuildings on the Eaftfxde ofthe Chapel,which extendedunto the Walls on the North fide of the Cattle, wherethe Towers, viz. Cherry's Tower, and Le Amenery’s Tower,and Barney’s Tower, were fttuated 3 as alfo on the Southfide of the Chapel, unto the Belfry there, exclulively 3the Materials whereof he might beftow upon any Build-ings in the Cattle, as he thought convenient. Howwell the Bifhop difeharged this Office, appears from thePreamble of his Patent, whereby that King conferredon him the Chancedorfhip ofthe Garter, in which is fetforth, That out of meer Love towards the Order, he had givenhimfetf the Leif ire daily to attend the Advancement and Pro-- grefs of this goodly Fabric

f rom this Erefhon of K .Ed. IV. arofe the elegant andbeauteous Structure now {landing, enlarged in Length

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