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fummer Week then next enfuing, anti charge the Chan-cellor to prepare Matter (for Propofitions and Oblerva-tions upon the Statutes) fit for their Confutations a-gainftthat Appointment, according to the Tenor of theCommiffion. And in another Place writes, That hefound fuch Difficulty to procure Meetings, and as cer-tain non Chalance in every one, as if it were but a cere-monious Affair, and fo few hearty in it, that he fearedhe and the Officers ihould wait to little Purpofe: And foindeed it fell out j for albeit he attended in MidfummerWeek, according to their Direction, yet there was no-thing difpatch’d, fave only the adjourning of theirMeeting to London.
Some little Progrefs was afterwards made in this Af-fair at White-hall the 8th of February following, whereThree of them were prefent, viz. the Earls of Ltrl (-Jhire, Lindjey , and Northumberland , who order’d theChancellor, Regiller, and Garter, to prepare an Abbre-viation of the Statutes, and reduce every thing of oneHead into an A£t, to keep up to Method, and avoidConfufion.
The ill: of February after, another Aflembly ofSevenof the Knights-Commiffioners was held at White-hall, inwhofe Prefence a few Points were debated 5 but little ornothing concluded.
§ 4. As concerning the Annals of the Order, or theBooks wherein the feveral Refolutions and Decrees oc-cafionally made in Chapters, and wherein other hifto-rical and ceremonial Matters relating to it are recorded,it will not be amils to give fome Account of themin this Place.
The firfi-, in Order of time, is an old Paper Bookwritten in French, call’d Regi/lrum Chartaceum, hithertofortunately preferv’d in the Paper Office at White-hall,which probably was begun by John Coningham ■, tor wefind him, 1414. (a little before the Annals commenced )made Canon of Windfor, and Regiller of the Or-der, and in regard the fame Hand-Writing is carry’don from the Beginning of the Book down to 1 6 Hen. VI.inclufive, where follows an Hiatus till Anno 2 ; Hen. \ !.that the Annals began to be fet down with anotherL 4 Hand 5