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ONCERNINGthe Officers appointed forthe fervice of the Order* to give it a greaterdegree and augmentation of Honour, theFounder conftituted a Prelate, Rcpjler and Ufaer, alig-ning them feveral Duties. Some of his Succefforsifa; added the Chanchellor and Garter , and all of them Sworn“ifr. to be of the Council of the Order ; among thefe theft: Prelate and Chanchellor are ufually nominated the Prin-cipal, the other three the jinferiour Officers of theit i Order.

imp In this Chapter we fhall give fome account of theirl«h Inftitution, Oath, Habit, Enfigns, Privileges and Peii-Voilfionsj for as to the nature of their Offices and theirvj 1 Duties, they are for the general, Recorded in the BlacklanyBook, under the Title Conjtutiones ad Officiates Ordinis\xB[Gamrij']peculiariter attinentes, &c. Upon the Eftablifh-fetment, Anno 13. Hen. VIII. 1521. and annex’d to hisatom Statutes, and more particularly their Duties, will occuriv ,a in feveral places of theenfuing Difcourfe, where theyI it a properly fall in to be Treated of, as follows 5jJJl The Prelate is the firft and primier Officer, and injut the Founders Statutes, call’d Prcelatus Ordinis 3 and that£012 the then Bifhop of Winchejler, William de Edyngton was, f the firft Prelate is very obious from thence ; he is anOfficer of Honour only, and hath neither Penfion nor[jj (j Fees allowed him by the faid Conftitutions j this Office,) y is vefted in the Bifhop of Winchejler, for the time being }and from the Annals of the Order it’s manifeft his Sue-^ ceffors have continued Prelates to this Day, except the0 {i interruption only of a few Months, Anna 7. Ed. 6 . im-ife*' mediatel y a ^ ter fo e Publifhing this King’s Statutes;(tit therein foe other Four Officers were conlfituted anew,"V t0 attend the Order, but the Prelate wholly laid by.

■ & y^ nKr high reputation this See hath been favour’dl l u0 with, may be collected from an Aft of Parliament, 31.Hen, VIII. concerning the Placing of the Lords in Parlia-ment Chamber, and other Afiemblies and Conference?of Council, whereby this Bilhop had Place afligned

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