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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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the Order, Thefe Knights-Commiffioners were en-dow’d with all the plenary Powers given in the forefaidCommiffion, dated 6 Car. I. unto which was granted afurther Addition, for the better effecting the Sovereign’sCare : That Three or more of them fhould meet atthe Sovereign’s Court, and begin to put the faid Com-miffion in execution in Wlntfon Week nextenfuing, at-tended and affifted by the Chancellor of the Order, andall, or any other Officers, or fuch of them as theyfhould fix on, or find ferviceable. And being affem-bled, to have free Liberty to hear, propound, and de-bate of whatfoever fhall fall under their Cognifance,or that they fhould conceive conducible to the Honourand perfect Eftablifhment of fo llluftrious and Noble aBody. And to prepare all Matters of fuch their Re-folutions and Debates to be laid before the Sovereignat the next Feaft of St. George, and fo fucceffively at e-very Chapter fo appointed by him, to receive his fullDetermination, Approbation, and Royal Affent, withfurther Power to adjourn from time to time, after thefirft Opening and Reading of the faid Commiffion ;their Meetings to be in fuch Places, and on fuch Days asfhould feem moll convenient to them.

Now who wou’d fuppofe, that after fo Noble an In-tention of the Sovereign, and his earneft Solicitude toiffiie forth a fecond Commiffion, his hearty recom-mending and exciting their Deligence for a fpeedy Dif-patch, and laftly, his expending an Account of theirTranfacfions the next Feaft, thefe honourable Perfons,Companions of the Order, fhould need a Spur to ac-complifh fo laudable a Defign; but it was fo.

For altho’ the Commiffion was opened at White-bdthe 30th of May following, in the Prefence of theEarls of Pembroke and Montgomery, Salisbury, Holland,Marquifs of Hamilton, and Duke of Lenox, Commifli-oners ; yet Sir Thomas Row Chancellor, in hjs Letter toDr. Cbrijtojsber IVren, dated the 4th of Jane, 1657. fadily complained, That it was much as he coujd d° t0draw together Five of the Knights-Companions, to 9-pen and read the Commiffion, and this quajt in tranfitn,Was in Confofion and Hurry, and all that was tfanfa$edwas to appoint another Convention at Qourt in

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