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The History Of the most Noble Order of the Garter : Wherein is set forth An Account of the Town Castle, Chapel, and College of Windsor; with their several Officers ; The Foundation of the Order by King Edward III. ; With the Statutes, and Annals at large, as they have been altered and amended ; An Account of the Habits, Ensigns and Officers of the Order ... To which is prefix'd, A Discourse of Knighthood in General, and the several Orders extant in Europe
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the 120 &l. per Ann. out of which they paid the Annual

Penfions above-named, under the Title of certain atl( jerd-nary Charges, as alfo fuch as come within the Denomi-nation of Accidental and Extraordinary Expences; 0 fwhich kind in their time, were,

Mantles, -when the Sovereigns pleas'd to bejioiv them on theKnights-Coml a . ions.

Plate for the Altar in St. George* Chappel at Windfor.Embroidery of the Purfe for holding the Seals.

TLemoval of Atchievements and Plates againjl Injlallatms.Efcutcheons fet up at St. George* Feaft.

Privy Seals and Fees disburft for receiving the 1200 1. perAnnum.

Fees for Tnjiallation of Foreign Princes and Stranger-Knights,Parchment ufed in Difpenfations and Prorogations.

Flue pFaxfar the Seals of the Order.

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By which we are ealily informd, what ought to beaccounted extraordinary Expences, towards the Dif-chargc whereof this Sum was to be employd as faras it would reach, to mitigate the Coft the greatWardrobe formerly flood taxed with, Provifions of theOrder, both for foreign Embaffies and Expences atHome.

The Manner of the Chancellors palling his Account,as directed by the faid Commiffion, was thus done bySir^awe* Palmer, He humbly moved the Sovereign inChapter held the 10th of OElober, 15 Car. I. That itwould pleafe him to view the Disburfements made forthe Expences of the Order, which thereupon being Ex-amined by the Knights in the Sovereigns Prefence, thefame were found agreeable to the Directions of the Com-miffion, and the Payments juftifyd by the Acquittance ofevery Officer to whom any Fee was due, no Payment ha-vingbeen made without the Sovereigns Hand nrft to Au-thorize it: Allwhich being feen and allowd,the Account(wherein his Disburfements exceeded his Receipts 37^x 5 *. 10 *.) was effeemed Equitable and Juft, and paffedby the Subfcription of Charles then Prince of Wales, theEarls of Pembroke and Montgomery , Salisbury , WoniEerh-fhire, Duke Hamilton , and the Earl of Horthumberknl

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