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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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j2. Every Knight-Companion at his fir ft Entrance,was to give a certain Alms, according to their Eminenceand Degree, for the perpetual Maintenance of the Ca-nons and Poor Knights, vit. the Sovereign Forty Marks,a Foreign King Twenty Pounds, a Prince of WalesTwsnty Marks, a Duke Ten Pounds, an Earl TenMarks, a Baron a Hundred Shillings, and a KnightBatchellor Five Marks, that by theft pious Donationsthey might juftly entitle themfelves to the Name andPrivileges of the Order; wherefore, before theft Pay-ments were rightly performed, their Sword and Helmet[Atchievements] were not to be hung up, and for Fo-reigners the Sovereign was obliged to pay himfelf.

23. Upon the Death of any of the Founders hisArms, in a Plate of Metal, was to be fixed upon theBack of his Stall, and their Succelfors were to have thelike, but to be placed underneath their Predeceflors,and not to be fo great as thofe of the firft Founders.

24. At Admiffion every Knight-Companion muffpromift and fwear perfonally, or by Proxy, faithfullyto obferve the Statutes of the Order, and none are tobe initialled by Proxy but Foreigners only, which can-not conveniently come in Perfon.

25. If the Sovereign be out of England at the Inftal-lation of any Knight-Companion, or could not attendhimfelf to do what appertains to him in that Point, hemightimpower and authorize any of theFellows to of-ficiate for him.

2 6 . That there be a Common Seal or Signet Keeper,whom the Sovereign was to aflign.

27. Every Knight-Companion was to have a Copyof the Statutes under the Seal of the Order, the Ori-ginal ftaled likewife with the laid Seal, to remain forevermore within the Treafury of the College, and uponthe Death of any Knight-Companion, his Executorswere to fend back fuch Copy to be deliver’d to the Cu-ftos orYv^arden.

18. No Knight-Companion was to go out of theRealm and Dominion of England , without the Know-ledge and Licence of the Sovereign, who of Grace andFavour is bound to grant it upon a Military Expedition,or other notable ASt appertaining to the Honour of

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