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22. It. The Govemour is to keep a Book, and regifter,the Abfenters, and other Defaulters of the Statutes,whereof he fhall deliver one to the Dean, and anotherto the Steward, or him that payeth the poor JCnights,who by Order of the Dean is to make proper Defalca-tions at the Time of paying them.
23. It. The Dean once a Year is to appoint a Day andHour, at which the poor Knights are to be warned to beprefent, to hear thefe Statutes read, and any Knightabfenting after that Warning, and without Licenfe, is toforfeit 6s. 8 d.
24. It. Any elefted poor Knight, before he take anyCommodity of his Room, fhall take a corporal Oath be-fore the Dean, to be faithful and true to the Crown,and that for the time of their tarrying there to trulyobferve the Statutes and Ordinances upon the Penaltiescontain’d in the faid Statutes.
The 25th Article is a Difpenfation for thofe poorKnights chofen before thefe Statutes, who were not cer-tainly known Gentlemen, yet Men well reported forHonefty, and meet to be relievedj but with an Intentthat none hereafter be admitted, unlefs a Gentlemanborn, agreeable to the firft Order.
The annual Allowance of each, upon this new Efla-blifhment, is 18 f 5 s, to be paid by the Dean of Wind-for, (but their Governour has 3 /. 6 s. and 8 d. more)befides their Gown and Mantle mentioned in their Sta-tutes. Kingjamesl. doubled this Penfion, and madeitpayable out of the Exchequer quarterly.
To thefe Thirteen Alms-Knights, temp. Car. I. Fivemore were added, Two of the Foundation of Sir Peterla Maire, Knight, and Three of Sir Francis Crane, Knight,Chancellor of the Garter5 for Sir Peter, by his laftW ill,dated Jan. 8. 1631. bequeath’d 1500/. to charitableUles, to be difpos’d as Sir Francis (who had marry’dhis Sifter) Ihould think fit, within Four Years afterhis Death ; whereupon Sir Francis, determining to ereftcertain Houfes in Windfor-Czille, for the dwelling ofFive Alms-Knights, defign’d the faid 1500 /. towardsthat Ufe, and what was deficient made up at his ownCoft, charging his Brother Executor, Sir Richard Crane,by his Will, dated Jug. 27. X635. to fee the Pile which