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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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and others Contraction. And for the compleating ofwhich Purpofe, on St. 'George’s Day, Anno 9 Regm fuihe fummoned all the Knights-Companions to convenenext Year at the Time of the Solemnity, about the Ab-rogation of what tended to darken the Honour of thisOrder (if any fuch were) and for the Advancement ofwhat might promote the Grandeur and Lultre of it. Butthefe Refolves came to no Perfection till May 28.Jnno 11 R egni fui, when he entred upon this Reforma-tion with all magnificent Ceremony imaginable, for be-ing accompanied #ith Nineteen Knights-Companionsof the Order proceeding in Cavalcade to the Cnapter-Houfe, and taking into Confideration their formerStatutes of Knights-Companions, with all due Reve-rence implor’d the. Sovereign to rdform and explainthem as he fhould think convenient, Hvhich he broughtto a fuccefsful Period, by the Advice and Confent ofthe Society affembled: That done, all present entreatedthe Sovereign, kneeling, that where any of them hadbeen peccant againft the Order, he would pleafe to re-mit, and iffue out a general Pardon, which he grantedand ratify’d in Chapter next Day. This was a Task ofThree Years compleat before it role to Perfection, viz.April 23. Anno 14 Hen. VIII. for then the Sovereign,out of right lingular Love, well-temper’d Zeal, andentire Affection to this moll noble Order, to the Eflateof Chivalry, and the Continuance andEncreafe thereof;as alfo at the humble Requell: and inllant Importunityof the then Knights-Companions, and by their Ad-vice, Counfel and Confent, did interpret and eluci-date all the Obfcurities, Doubts and Ambiguities ofthe former Statutes and Ordinances. Divers Affairscontain’d in Fifty of them being explain’d and amended;he made likewife neceflary Additions, the Originalwhereof being fign’d and feal’d, were commanded tobe carefully laid up in the Treafury of Windfor Col-lege, to remain as a Standard to fucceeding Times;yet they have not been feen there thefe many Yearspad.

The Articles and Claufes added to 'the farmer Sta-tutes, in this lad Body, are thefe :

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