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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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bit was a Red Mantle, with the Efcutcheon of St. Georgewithout any Garter to furround it. Their Exhibition,after their firll Election was iz d. a-piece every Daythey were at Service in the Chapel, or refident in theCollege, befides 40 s. per Annum, for other Contin-gencies, it being the Hated Allowance appointed to eachof the Canons Refidents.

About the Beginning of King Hen. Vi’s Reign, theirquotidian Difh'ibutions and Annual 40 s. had been un-paid upon the Account offome Diflentions rifen betweenthem and the Dean and Canons j but upon Complaintof John Bifhop of Yorl^, Lord Chancellor of England,and Vifitor of the College, 10 Hen. VI. they were re-dreffcd, and their Arrears of both difcbarged, withoutany Deduction, and likewife obtained this Claufe,That ifthe Treafurer of the College became negligent in futurePayments, he fhould lofe his own Quotidians, fromthe Time of his voluntary Omiffion, and the fame tobe divided among the Alms-Knights. Their Duty wasto pray for the Sovereign and the Knights Companions,to be every Day prefent at High Mafs, the Maffes of theVirgin Mary, at Vefpers and Compline, and in defaultto be mulcted their 12 d. toties quoties, which was tobe converted to the Ufe of the other Alms-Knights, thenrefiding in the Caflle of Wind for ; notwithflandingwhich Decree, the Dean did afterwards break in uponthem, anddifpofed of thefe Forfeitures at his Pleafure,till 2 Rich. II. Adam, Bifhop of St. David’s, thenChancellor of England, and Vifitor of the College, re-drefs’d it, and another Complaint of like Nature beingmade of the Deans difpofing of Donations and otherLiberalities of the Knights Companions in wrong of theAlms-Knights, this Chancellor decreed an equal Di-ftribution between the Alms-Knights and Canons, tillthe King and Council fhould otherwife determine.

Thefe and other Differences between the Dean andCanons and Alms Knights, grew up to that height, thatthey became irreconcileable, infomuch as in tbe A£t ofParliament, 22 Edv. IV. for incorporating of the Cu-ffos and Canons, by the Name of Dean and Canons,the Alms-Knights were not only omitted 5 but thisC'aufe inferted, That the Dean and Canons, and their Suc-

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