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apprehend Delinquents, and fuch have offended a-gainft the Statutes of this Moft Noble Order. Andwhere he apprehends any one of the Order, as Guilty offome Crime for which he is to be expell’d the Order,the manner of it is by touching them with this Black-Rod, and his Fee for it, is 5 /.

He has affigned him a Golden Badge to be openlyworn in a Gold Chain, or Ribband, before his Breaft,compofed of one of the Knots in the Collar of the Or-der which tye the Rofes together, and encompaffedwith a Garter, being alike on both fides 5 which wasconferred on him and his Succeffors, by Decree inChapter, held the 24th of April, 8 Ehz.

’Tis as ancient as Hen. Vth’s Reign, for there’s aHoufe in Windfor Caftle granted to this Officer by Let-ters-Patent, during Life. And the fame Provifion ismade for him by the Conftitutions of his Office. It isfituate on the South-fide of the Cattle in the middleWard. The faid Conftitutions give him Baron-Serviceat Court, and Livery thereto appertaining ; and befidesthefe, the keeping of the faid Caftle, and the two Parksadjacent.

King Charles I. having taken into his Hands thelittle Park of Windfor, and bellow’d it upon JamesMaxwell, then Uffier of the Black-Rod, He, at a Chap-ter held at Whitehall, the 5th of November, 1629. de-creed, That as the Cuftody of the faid Park was con-ferr’d on Maxwell in right of his Office j fo the fameIhould for ever after be annex'd thereto, and not to bedifpofed of but under the Great Seal of the Order, andthat only to the Uffier ofthe Order for the time being.

Lastly, this Officer had anciently a Fee of 12 d. perdiem, which we find continu’d down in the Letters-Patents, whereby this Office was granted. Befideswhich, the Conftitutions of his Office allow' him anannual Penfion of 50 /. heretofore paid him out of theExchequer, but by King Charles I. affigned him out of1 zoo l. per Ann. fettled upon the Order 5 touchingWhich, and the Payment of the Officers Penfions uponthe new Eftabliffiment, is the next Section.

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