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CHAP. IX.

fiiji j i TT|7E come iiow to treat of the Election ofilfcf V V a Knight into the Order, according to6i, j the Statutes of Inftitution, which Or-

^insj That whenfoever any Knight-Companion hap-

tlm ('who were able to come ') to meet him -within Jix Weeks% afttrfrch Notice, in -what convenient Place foever he pleafed to><ft ajffn for the EleBing a new Companion into the Society. Thus3 ®t' did the Law of this Moft Noble Order, in cafe of Death,JAi and to prevent Vacancies, at firft provide ; wherewithnents, ^ evidently find the Pradlice of elder Times did pun--fn dually concur : For as foon as Garter, in DifchargeofW his Duty, had made Certificate to the Sovereign of aover Knight-Companion’s Deceafe, or otherwife to the Re-iofi gifler of the Order, all fitting Diligence was ufed tofill up the vacant Stall, within the Space limited by thisStatute, or immediately after, and for the quicker Dif-iBq patch,Letters of Summons were iffued to the Knights-rtBtt Companions, to give perfonal Attendance atthe Eleifion.jJfc' In an ancient one upon the Death of Sir Henry Fiti Hugh,Knight-Companion, Temp. Henry V. thefe particularswere no lefs purfuant to the Statutes, than worthy Ob-

Aao “ L The Day whereon the defunft Knight-Compa-r®; 11 n '°n died is therein fet down.

*T' " K Diredlion is given for celebrating Mafles, ac-

iisiti “ cording to the Tenor of the Statutes,bdj! “ III. Intimation that a Stall is become void by theA " Knight’s Deceafe.

th,a» ^ “ IV. The Law of the Order vouched, which ap-I u ?»'nts an Eleftion of another Knight within fixI 1( f We «ks after Certificate made of the Death of theformer, to avoid as much as may be an interval inSucceffion.

fe, pens to depart this Life, The Sovereign (or his Deputy)*i ; a jtt r certain Notice had thereof, Jhould forthwith by his Let-1 ®®! ttrs, Summon all the Knights-Compan'tons then within the

idmit fcrvation.

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V. The