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F out the Year. In Performance of which Will, King

| ^ Ediv.Vl- in the firft Year of his Reign, did confer fe-ll 111111 veral Lands upon the College 3 but 600 l. perJnnum of

,‘h thefe Rents were by the Dean and Canons paid back,

to be employed on creating of Houfes for the Alms-t t!,,e Knights, intended to be fettled by King Hen. VIII- This.

■ ^ Work began not till the 3d and 4th of Philip and Mary,1 '“*; and was finifhed the 5 th and 4 th of their Reign, theCharge amounting to a 747 ^ 7 s - 6 ^ Thefe Houfes arelttJilt5 Jituate on the South fide of the Lower Ward of the."}* Caftle, and contain Thirteen Rooms, befides an Hall,

' ^ a Kitchin, and a Paltry 3 the Stone was brought from

> 'Reading, the Timber from the Foreft, and the Lead,

fhfc. an d Apparels for the Chimnies, from Suffolk. Place in

•bin. Southwark- At a Chapter of the Garter, held the 1 ft of

fSdj 1 June, the 4th and 5th of Philip and Mary, the Houfes

^hr- being then near finifhed, a Debate arofe about placing

dtivj feme Alms-Knights therein, if poffible, by Michaelmas

following, whereupon the Marauds of Winton, Lord-Mi^ Treafurer, had Orders to affign Lands for their Mainte-nance 5 and towards the compleating of this the Queentofft had nominated Nine of the Thirteen defigned 5 but f a l-ling fick in Augufi, a flop was put to the Affair, till QueenOF Elizabeth coming to the Crown confirmed her Sifter’s7 off Grants to the Nine nominated Knights, and made upi«s* the Number full Thirteen, ordained by King Henry VIII.fir, under which Eftablifhment they ftill remain 3 for after-wards, viz. Hug. 30. in the firft Year of her Reign,Re-elk minding the Continuance of King Edward's Foundation,f Alffi the Intent of her Progenitors, and Advancement of the

jpointei Order of the Garter, and King Henry Mill's Will, for the

nils, us Support of Thirteen poor Men decayed in Wars, to be[Can® called Thirteen Knights of Windjor 3 and having ere eftiia’sh ed certain Orders for their better Regulation, and de-list® dar’d how and in what manner the 600 l, given by her •

(D, atl Father fhould be employ’d for the Maintenance of thefe

;[ £ to I Knights and their Succeflors, fhe laftly declared, That

Ats, ’ ® ean an d Canons fhould for ever caufe thefe RulesUeCl an ^ ^tders to be obferved.

0$. kmpr. That there be Thirteen Poor Knights, all Gan-Uji 1 demen, one whereof to be Governour, that have fpentK . M f ^ ear Time in the Wars, or other Service of the Realm,

^ Ha having