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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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ter viz. the Twenty Five firft Knights Companions,every one prefenting Angularly ; yet this was but Withthe Sovereign’s Permiffion, Pro hac vice ; and that noneof them Ihould be entitled to it hereafter but the So-vereign alone. And becaufe it might the more effectu-ally be obferv’d, the Cultos was oblig’d upon everyCanon’s Death, to fignify the fame to the Sovereign,that he might pitch on One to fucceed ; which beingnominated, he is approved, inllituted, and inikl’d, bythe Cuftos or Dean, to whom he fwears Canonical Obe-dience, and Obfervance of the Statutes.

The principal Duty of thefe Canons ( and of all theother Miniflers of the College) is continually to attendupon the Service of God in the Chapel of St. George 5and the Statutes run upon each Day’s Omiffion of aCanon Refident, to be mulcted his quotidian Dillribu-tion 1 id. And tho’ we find no Licenfe of Non-Refi-dence granted them by their Founder, yet there ismention of Canons Refident and Non-Refidenr, forwhom great Defalcations are appointed to be made, toprevent fuch Neglefts, becaufe the refidentiary Canonsbear not only the Burden of that Duty belonging to theChapel, but the Expence of Hofpitality and otherWorks of Charity, occafion’d from their refiding atWindjisr.

Richard Beauchamp, Bifhop of Salisbury, obtain’d Pow-er from Sextus IV. to make new Statutes, and difpens'dwith the old Ones; and in 1478. he gave to the Deanand every Canon Fourteen Days of Non-Refidence inevery Term, to wit, Fifty Six Days in the Year. Bythe Vifitation, 155a. they obtain’d a Difpenfation forEighty Days ; and the Lord Chancellor Hatton yet gavethem a further Permiffion to Two Hundred and TwoDays, whieh the Lord Chancellor Hyde confirm’d; fothat there remains One Hundred and Sixty Three Daysin the Year, in which the Canons ought to be refidentwith Hofpitality, to be confonant to their Statutes.

The Canons are particularly oblig’d to pray ,for theSovereign, and for the happy Eftate of the Order. Ifany Knight Companion, or other Perfon, Ihould be-llow Ten Pounds per Jmmm, in order to be Partakerof the Prayers appointed for the BenefaCIors of the

 
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