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'?'♦( parted $ which negle&ed for a Quarter of a Year afterpt notice of fuch Death, the Mafles are to be doubled jHi U pon half a Year’s Negleft, again doubled 5 and fo from

Time to Time in like Form till the End of the Year,Hi an( } t h e n the Year’s to be doubled.

Yl i 18. Upon fure Notice of the Death of a Knight-HH Companion, the Sovereign, or his Deputy, is to con-verfe by Letters, the Remainder [not Strangers] that“t;J tj are w ithin the Kingdom, to meet him within SixWeeks"“it in fonrte convenient Place, and ele£l another 5 which af-s i V' fembled, at lead Six, with the Sovereign or Deputy, e-very of them prefent is to name Nine of the worthieftand fufficienteft Knights without Reproof that heGay 1 , knows, whether native Subjects or Foreigners, fobeit'ttyh they hold no contrary Party, or be again!! the Sove-'chtht reign, viz. Three Earls, or of fublimer Title 5 Threerelent, Barons, and Three Knights Batchellors, which Namestoast the Bi/hop of Wind for, for the Time being, was towrite, or, in his Abfence, the Dean or Regifler, and,Jfiri in their Abfence, the oldeft Refidencer in the College*fafc and after fhew them to the Sovereign, who is to chuleout of them him that has the molt Voices, and whomtkfci he efteems the moft beneficial to the Crown and King-jtintic dom. Every Knight failing to appear at an Election,[cCaM without an approved Caufe, was to pay to the Cuflosjjtua arid College the Penalty of a Mark, and at his nextfPiFS coming to the Chapter /hall kneel upon the Ground, inhey the midft of the Chapter, before the Sovereign or De-is m puty, until Reconciliation.

ium§ !?• Soon after Eleftion, the Knight-Companion ele£l[0 ' t k is to have a Garter, in token of his Election, and thatlt krt, he is a Fellow of the Order ; and as foon as decreed to{jjj take Poffeffion of his Stall, but not before, is to have1 a Mantle, which, if he dies before he receiv’d, he wasnot to be accounted as one of the Order, becaufe heftk^ Wlnte d Poffeffion 5 neverthelefs he was to have one, half of the Mafles above/aid, becaufe he had the Gar-. j. ter deliver’d to him and nothing befide* If he was not", r | inftalled within a Year after his receiving the Garter,ar) d efpecially if within the Realm, and without rea-# j_ finable Excufe to be allowed of by the Sovereign orDeputy, his Election became void, and they might pro-

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