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College, his Name was to be infcribed amongft themand he alfo prayed for. Which Article, tho’ King Hen.Y.confirmed, yet with this ReftriClion, it fhould not beadmitted without the Confentof the Sovereign, or theKnights-Companions of the Order. 4 Edit. VI. fomeone of them were enjoyned to commemorate the Bene-factors in a Difcourfe upon the Tuefday next after thethird Sunday in Lent , and on the firfi: Tujedays in June,September and December, and not only to fet forth theMunificence of the Founder, and of King Hen. VIII. butof all others, fo as to excite their Auditors to an Emula-tion, in the Increafe of Religion, and fetting forth ofGod’s Glory.

The civil Obligations of thefe Canons are to attendthe Sovereign (or his Deputy) and the Knights Com-panions at their grand Feaft, and at the Fealls of theInftallation, or when the Sovereign or Knights Compa-nions fhall come to the Chapel of St. George upon a Re-ligious Account. On thofe folemn Days, over their Ec-cleflaftical Habit they wear a Murrey Mantle, (at thisDay a Taffaty Robe, in Falhion like the three inferiorOfficers of the Order) with the Arms of St, Georgearched within a Rundle on the Right Shoulder.

PETTY CANONS.

Thofe now call’d Petty Canons in the Patent of Foun-dation went undiflinguifh’d with the Canones Majores :only in the Bull of Pope Clement VI. to the Archbifhopof Canterbury and Bifhop of Winton, for inftituting theCollege, they are called Preslyteri ; and by the faidBifhop in the very Words of his Statutes, Presbyteri JenVicar'll, by which lafl Name they are ftyl’d at the firftEreClion of the Garter. Their Number was originallyThirteen, only King Henry the Vlllth’s Englljb Sta-tutes mention Eight petty Canons, befides ThirteenVicars, (but the Latin takes Notice only of ThirteenPriefts, forhe called Canonici Minores, others Vicarii.)Ann. 1. Edw. VI. Twelve Priefts were appointed, andnamed Petty Canons, that is, Four to be added to theEight mention’d in the Statute of King Henry VIII. Yetin Queen Elizabeth's Ordinances for the continualCharge, the Petty Canons thereby provided for are

Thirteen,