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1 Holy Crofs, neither upon any Days whichlhould happen in the Feflivals of theAfcenfion or Pentecoft, or other folenmFeafts ordained by the Church to the in-terrupting their Divine Service.

i a. That when a Knight lhould rideout he might wear a Blue Silk Ribbon in-Head of his Garter.

14. That the Order and Manner ofOffering up the Achievements lhould heas is there prefcribed, viz. before theyoffer their Money, their Swords lhould befirfl: offered by Two Companions, whichthe Sovereign or his Deputy lhould ay-< point, and afterwards their Helmets withtheir Crefts, by Two others of theOrder.

2.0. That Knights abfent in the Sove-reign’s Service might be inftall’d by De-puty.

31. That the Sovereign lhould take aSignet of the Order abroad with him, tobe fixed to all the Adis he does in ForeignParts relating to this Order, in Diftindlionto thofe done at home.

34.T hat noCharge lhould be admittedupon the College by the Cuftos orCanons,without the Sovereign’s Confent likewife.

The Statutes with thefe Additions (as the Statutes ofInftitution) this King caufed to be translated into French,and tranlcribed into a Roll, which was ordered to beprefented to every Knight-Companion under the com-mon Seal of the Order. In after Times it was tran-lcribed into Books ; and by a Decree, Anno 3 Hen. VII.an Original Book of thefe Statutes and Inftitutions,fair written, was to be repofed in the College of St. George,and the Scribe or Regifter to have Tranlcripts of themin Readinefs, to prefent the eledled Knights withal.

The laft and largell Body was firfl; began, and re-ceived the finifliing Stroke by King Hen. VIII. chiefly inregard fome of the former Statutes wanted Explication

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