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The Regifter of the Order was oblig’d to provideTwo Boo&s, and therein to enter the Ordinances,Statutes, and ACts of this Noble Corporation, one to belodg’d at the Chapter Houfe at Windjor, and call’d, IndetfWindeforienfih and the other being a Duplicate of theformer, to remain in his own Cuftody, ready to expofeto the View of the Sovereign, whenfoever he fhoulddemand it ; this latter was called Juice Kegijlrum.

As to the general Directions for Compiling thefeBooks, and the Particulars they are to confift of, weare inform’d from the faid Statutes and Conftitutions £for befides the Entry of all the Scrutinies taken inChapter and Elections made thereupon, it is his Officdto record the Penalties inflicted on Knights-Compa-nions, and the Reconciliation of all Delinquents withother ACls, and their Caufes appertaining to the Order,all which are decreed to be recited before the Sove-reign and Knights-Companions at the Beginning of theChapter yearly, if Occafion be, to correCt and reduceinto Method. Moreover he is to record all the Policiesin War, Exploits, TranfaCtions, and memorableAtchievements, both of the Sovereign and Knights-Companions, according as he can bell attain the Know-ledge of them, by his own diligent Search, or the Af-fiflance of Mr. Garter, which having confign’d to Wri-ting from Year to Year, is to be perufed at the nextChapter by the Knights-Companions, for their Appro-bation and Correction ; and being reiterated the fecondtime in the Chapter, he is to fee that they be fairly en-grailed in the faid Book, for a perpetual Remem-brance.

ANDbecaufe the time perfix’d for Rehearfal of thefeParticulars in Chapter, had in fucceeding Years beenimploy’d in other Affairs. In one of thofe Articleswhich the Knights-Companions exhibited to KingJac.l. the 19th of May, Juno Jac. R. 20. and rati-fied the 2 2d of May following, it was decreed that no-thing of this Nature, or any other AC! in Chapter,fhould beregiflred before it had been perus’d and pafs’dthe Confederation of the then Knights-Companions, orat leaf! Four of them, who when they fhould fet TimesStpart to confult of the Affairs of this Order (for which

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