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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 exactly preponderate all the Statutes and Ordinan-ces of the Order, as well fuch as were eftablifhed atthe Foundation, as thofe that had been fince made, byExplanation or Addition, and to weigh advifedly whe-ther any Thing had been ena&ed, that had caufedDoubt or Ambiguity, or flood in need of any Change orAmendment; and if upon mature Deliberation by themthus conven’d, there flipuld appear any Contrariety orDefeft, for want of plain Expreffion, or other Omifli-on, fit to be fupplied, tending to the Honour of theOrder, That then the Sovereign might, upon Returnof their Proceedings, refolve upon fome general Decla-ration in Chapter, to reform and reduce into one Bodyall the Statutes and Ordinances thereof that the famebeing compil’d and fettled in one perfect Model, mightbe fo confign’d to Pofterity, free from all future Quefti-ons and Doubts-

Nevertheless not any thing was done upon thisCommiflion, tho’ it flood in force even from the 5 thto the 13th Year of this King’s Reign ; but where theNeglect lay Hiftory does not fully inform us, tho’ itmay be conjectur'd by what follows.

At the Feaft of St. George, celebrated by Prorogationit White-ball, for the Year 153 5 . upon the 17th; iSth,and x 9th Days of April, 1537. divers Petitions for Re-formation, and reducing of Matters to their priftineConftitution, were presented to the Sovereign by theChancellor, and read 5 fome of which, more efpecial-ly, tending to fet off and encreafe the Honour of theOrder, were received and decreed by the Sovereign,and the reft referr’d to the faid Knights-Commifltoners,The firft of thofe Decrees which at that time had itsSanftion, was to revive and renew the Powers given inthe former Commiflion; and thereupon a new one,dated the 7th of May following, was iflued under theGreat Seal of the Order, and directed to the Earls ofMulgrave, Darby, Pembroke , and Montgomery, Arundel,and Surry, Kelly, Salisbury, Dor fet, Holland, Barkjbire,Suffolk j Lyndfey, Exeter, Marquils Hamilton, Duke ofLenox, the Earls of Darby, Moreton, and Northumberland,or to Three or more of them, to meet and confult ofpiy Matters contain’d in the Statutes, or for Honour of

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