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3 s Chancellor of England , vifited the College, 1431.fecured the Money from being diftributed amongthofe that fold it, and refervecl the Dividend to theDean and Chapter that fhould chance to be living atthat Emperour’s Expiration j and commanded for theFuture under Pain ofExcommunication, That no Deanand Canon fhould imbezil or aliene any Knights-Com-panion’s Mantle while he was alive, but the fame fhouldbe decently afid faithfully kept and preferved. But weare informed, that this Statute was altered, Ann. 9 Eliz.and one drawn up to this effeil, That the Knight s-Com-panions fhotild be bound by Oath to take care by their Wills,that after their Deceafe, all the Ornaments “which they hadreceivedJhould be reftored , the Robes to the College, and theJewels to the Sovereign that gave them.

In the laft Place, the Times of wearing the Collar ofthe Order, with the Great George appendant, which isnot only enjoined to be worn (as part of the Habit) atthe grand Feafts and Feafts of Inftallation, but allb atother times when not any of the reft of the Habit isordered (faving the Garter) is to be worn, as in fpe-cial, at the principal and folemn Feafts of the Year, and o-ther Feaft-Days : To which a particular Order in Chap-ter, Ann. 4 Eliz. thus directs,

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The Holy-days and Sundayswithin the twelve Days.St. Matthias Day.

Holydays in Eafter-Week,

St. Marlas Day.

St. Philip and Jacob’s Day.Holy-days in Whit fun- W eek.St, Peter’s Day.

St. James’s Day.

St. Bartholomew.

St. Matthew.

St. Luke.

St. Simon and Jude.St. Andrew.

St. Thomas.

Besides thefe, the Sovereigns and Knights-Compa-mons have been accuftomed to wear this Enfign uponthe Anniverfary of the Sovereign’s Coronation, of theGun-Powder Tnafon, and, of later Times, on the Sove-reign’s Birth-day: So formerly upon fome occafionalCeremonies not relative to the Order; as when a Knight-Companion hath been created into Titles of Dignity andHonour, he had the Collar of the Garter added to his

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