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bide fucfi Orders as the Crown, or any Knight-Com-panion, deputed by the Sovereign, Ihall fet forth.

/. s. d t

In this Book the Total of the Revenue^ ss a

‘ reckon’d at the ancient Value y 1 0

430 19 06

And fo Remains 230 07 02

Which Remainder has been and is affigned for Paymentof Tenths to the Crown, Vicars, Curates, Annual Sti-pends, Officers Fees, Reparation of the Premiffes,and for the Relief of the Dean and Canons, in Main-tenance and Defence of the faid Lands.

And to the End the Queen might know how the Re-venue was difpofed of, (he gave charge that her Lieute-nant and the Knights-Companions fhould annually (atthe Feaft of the Order held at Windfor) ftate the Ac-compt, and fee how the Income was expended, and thather Lieutenant fhould yearly be put in mind of it byone of the Officers of the Order. This Ordinance wasrenewed, 21 J-ac. I. and the Chancellor of the Orderwas appointed to be the Remembrancer, and in Obedi-ence thereunto, the Account ofthefe new Lands (whichbegins at Lady-Day , as that of the old Lands doth atMichaelmas ) was afterwards exhibited in Chapter, andin particular that Account, 9 Car I. which was fubmit-ted to the Sovereign and Knights-Companion’s Confi-deration, who referred the Infpeftion thereof to theKnights-Commiffiaries, who were to confult over theAffairs of the Order.

<j. 8. The Privileges of the Chapel and College areEcclefiaftical and Temporal: As to the firft, Pope Cle-ment VI. exempted the Chapel, College, Canons, Priefts,Clerks, Alms-Knights and Officers, from all ordinaryJurifdiclion of Archbifhops, Bilhops, Archdeacons,and all Judges and Officers, and received them withinthe Protection of the Papal-See ; and granted a fartherPrivilege, That the Cuftos Iliould have EcclefiafticalJurifdi&ion over the Canons, Priefts, err. as alfo theCure of their Souls, notwithftanding any Papal Confti-

tution

The Annual Charge and Disburfements"^therein fet down y