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cefj'ors, jhould for ever more be utterly quit and difchargedfrom all manner of Exhibition or Charge of or for any of thefaidKnights. And this under the Cover, That the Kinghas greatly augmented the .Number of the Minifters ofthe Chapel, that the Revenue was infufticient to main-tain both them and the Alms-Knights ; but in the Deanand Canons Anfwer to the Knights Petition to repealthis Adi, the Caufe is alledged, For that fome of thefeKnights ufed their utmoft Endeavours before this A cl,to incorporate themfelves, and to be exempt from theObedience and Rule of the Dean and Canons.

After this Adi, which {truck off their QuotidianPortions and Fees afligned by King Edward's Foundati-on, how the Alms Knights fubiifled we find not; butfo foon as King Hen. VII. came to the Crown, they pe-titioned the King and Parliament for Repeal of the Adi,22 Edw. IV. and alledged it was obtained without theirKnowledge, or being called thereunto, which Plea a-vailed not at all but on the contrary, the Dean andCanons, fome Years after, got an Exemplification there-of under the great Seal, dated Feb. 4. 18 Hen. VII.

And it is very evident from King Hen. Vlll’s Letter tothe College, that what they did in this Nature afterthis Adi commenced, was merely upon Courtefie 5 forhe returns them Thanks for a Penfion of Twenty Marksconferred upon Peter Narbone, whom he had recom-mended to an Alms-Knights Place, and Promifes toburthen them no more with Requefts of this fort, butthat he would fettle Lands for their Maintenance. Sogreat was their Caution, Narbone was by Covenants in-dented between him and the Dean and Canons, to re-linquilhhis Penfion upon that King’s fettling Lands onthe College, for the Provifion of fuch Knights. In theInterval between the Difunion of the College and Alms-Knights, to their Eftablifhment by Queen Elizabeth ,their Habit arid Badge continued the fame, and was foconfirmed by Hen. VIII’s Statutes. It may be collectedby his laft Will, there was an Intention to draw theGarter about the Efcutcheon of St. George , which Pro-jection came to nothing, and expired. In this Intervalit is obferv’d that feveral Perfons of confiderable Rankand DirtinfHon became Alms-Knights j fome of which

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