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Four Chaplains and Two Clerks5 as like wife a Cha-pel in the Park of Wmdfor, under the fame Regulation,for Four more Chaplains, whom King Edvi. 111. re-mov’d and joyn’d to thofe before fettled in the Cha-pel of the Caftle, and built Habitations for their bet-ter Accommodation, on the South Side thereof

The Foundation we treated of here was confirm’dby Letters Patent, dated at Wefiminfier, Jug. 6 . zz Ed-ei.III. three Quarters of a Year before he erected T heOrder of the Garter, when he laid the Foundation of theancient Chapel a-fre/h, in honour of God, the VirginMary, St. George and St. Edvard the Confeffir 3 and or-dain’d, that to King fury's Eight Canons there Ihouldbe annex’d One Cuftos, Fifteen more Canons, andTwenty Four Alms-Knights, together with other Mi-nifters, all under the Power of the Cuftos, and thefeto be fupported out of the Revenues wherewith thisChapel mould be endow’d : Upon which Pope ele-mental. 1351. by his Bull directed to the Arch-bilhopof Canterbury and Biihop of Winchefier, approved inpart the King’s Intention.

The next Year the Statutes and Ordinances of theCollege commenc’d, by Virtue of the Pope’s Authority,the King’s Command, and Conlent of the Biihop ofSalisbury, in whofe Diocefs the Chapel is fituate. Bywhich Statutes, Winchefier (one of the Pope’s Delegates)inftituted a College, within the Precinils of the Cha-pel of St. George, confiding of one Cuftos, Twelve Se-cular Canons, Thirteen Priefts or Vicars, Four Clerks,Six Chorifters, and Twenty Six Alms-Knights, befidesother Officers.

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5 4. The firft Cuftos was John de la Chambre, confti-tuted Nov. 14. 22 Edvt. III. to whom fucceeded WilliamMugg, on the i8thofj tune following: Which Mugg isthe firft, if the Inftitution of the College bears Dateby Papal, and not Kingly Authority. After him wereothers that were call’d "by the fame Title 3 till the laftiear of King Henry IV. when Thomas Kingfion was pre-iented by the Name of Dean 3 and his Succeftor, JohnArundel, obferving djvers Endowments granted to the

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