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The History Of the most Noble Order of the Garter : Wherein is set forth An Account of the Town Castle, Chapel, and College of Windsor; with their several Officers ; The Foundation of the Order by King Edward III. ; With the Statutes, and Annals at large, as they have been altered and amended ; An Account of the Habits, Ensigns and Officers of the Order ... To which is prefix'd, A Discourse of Knighthood in General, and the several Orders extant in Europe
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cecd to a new one: Moreover, neither the Sword norHelmet was to be put upon his Stall within the Cattle,before his coming j to the End, that if the Knight eleftcame not, his Achievements might not be unhandfomlytaken down and abufed, but honourably removed in-to the Choir for the publickUfe and Profit of the faidCollege.

20. Every Foreigner elected was to have Certifica-tion of fuch his Election front the Sovereign, at theSovereign’s Charge, who was to fend him the Garterand the Mantle, and a Copy of the Statutes of the Or-der, under the Common Seal of the faid Order, with-in Four Months after the Ele&ion, the better for him toadvife on ; which being accepted, of whatfoever Con-dition he be, he was obliged within Eight Months afterto fend a fufficient Proxy, according to his State andDignity, a Knight irreprehenfible to be iriftalled in hi*Room, and who was to bring with him a Silk Mantleof the Blue Colour of the Order, alfo a Sword andHelmet to remain at Windfor, which Mantle was be putupon the right Shoulder of the Proxy, by the Sove-reign or Deputy at the time of Inftallment, when he isintroduced to take the Stall in the Name of his Lordand Matter 5 neither was he to depofite the fame till theEnd of Divine Service ; after which he was not to wearit, nor be admitted in the Chapter-Houfe, or have anySuffrage, by virtue of any Powers vetted in him ; butthis Favour Foreigners elected by Proxy were to have,that could not perfonally come themfelves, they wereto be Partakers of the whole Mattes and Orifons of theOrder ; whereas, if they died before the Inftallation,they were to have but a Moity of them.

21. Upon the Death of any Earl, [or of SuperiorDignity] Baron, or Knight Batchellor, his Succeffor,whether Earl, [or of Superior Dignity] Baron, orKnight, was to have a vacant Stall of his Predecefibr,without any changing of Places, except the Prince ofWales alone, who was to have always the next Stall,and oppofite to the Sovereign ; fo that it may happen fora Knignt to have an Earl’s Place, or an Earl a Knight’sPlace ; and this becaufe the firft Founders might beknown.

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