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l>h Jaid Servant for his better fupport and maintenance , ttsafo of Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, the Sum of 81,and of every Duke of the Blood 6 1. all other EJiates, viz,Duke not of the Blood 4I. a Marquefs 5 Marks, an Earl 4.Markj, a Vifcount 7 Nobles, a Baron 40 S. and a KnightBatchelor that fball he of the Order, 26 s. 8 d. all whichfaid Sums of Money, according to the feveral degrees of theirEJiates, are to he paid, (continues the Decree) unto thefaid Garter or his ajjigns yearly at St. Georges’* Feajl, orimmediately after, as well by the Knights then present, as hythofe that fhall be abfent, or hereafter are to fucceed in the faidOrder 5 and after the deceafe of the faid Garter, to his Sac-ceffort for ever.

At St. Georges' s Feaft, Celebrated at Windfor, 22, 15,and 24 of April, Anno 1 5 Car. II. Sir Edward Walker thenGarter, reprefenting by Petition, that the annual Pen-fion of the inftalled Knights then in Arrear for one Year,

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proportion, the Sovereigns Share, (he being to pay forall ftranger Knights) amounted at that time, to 32/. 13*.4 d. and humbly praying that his Majefty would grantto him and his Succeffors an tool, per Annum, out ofthe Revenue fettled to the ufe of the Order, in lieu notonly of thofe faid Penfions, payable from the Sovereignand Knights-Companions, both Strangers and Subjects;but for refigning his Claim to his annual Penfion of 50/.in confideration for preparing Scutcheons and removalof Atchievements. This Petition the Sovereign waspleafed to refer to a Committe of the Knights-Compa-nions, who, namely the Duke of Alhemarl, the Earls ofJJndfey, Manchefter, Sandwich, and Stafford, who beingattended by Garter, and weighing the event of thePetition, offered their opinions to the Sovereign, togrant him the faid 100 1. per Annum in lieu of whathe offered to quit, whereby the intereft of this Officemight be preferred in a more compendious Methodthan it was, his Majefty exempted from thole fmall pay-ments for Strangers, and the Knights-Subjefls themfelveswere difcharged from their annual Penfion, and hisMajefty ratifying the fame fhortly after, Sir Henry de V r,the Chancellor, was ordered to pay unto Garter, and hisSucceffors the faid annual Penfiqn of tool, which was

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