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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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“ V. The Sovereign’s Power afferted where he f P“ Caufe to Prorogue the Election. fS

“ VI. An Injun&ion to attend perfonally at th e £leflion, under a Penalty exprefs’d in the Statutes.

“ VII. The Day, Place, and Hour for Appearance ij“ with certainty appointed, to the End all might Ac.“ commodate themfolves to be prefont.

“ VIII. The End of coming is mention’d with full“ Difpofition and Preparation to perform what the St*.M tv.tes in this Cafe requir'd.

“ IX. Laftly, Direction is there given to the Knight“ fummoned, that in cafe his coming to the Chapter was4 ‘ impeded, he fhould certifie the Reafon of his Defaultagainft the time of his Appearance, of the Validity“ whereof the Sovereign was to be foie Umpire.

And generally of thefe Topicks, and to this Purportwere the Letters of Summons in fucceeding times com-poled.

The before-mention’d Branch of the Statutes of In-ftitution hath been fufficiently enforced by Incorpora-ting it into the Statutes, temp. H. V. and H. VIII. norhath it fince undergone any Alteration; howbeit fomefurther Addition and Explanation were annexed tothem, a i Joe. I. at a Chapter held at Windfor the 24thof April that year, where it was decreed, T hat the So-vereign being advertifed of the Death of a Knight-Companion,the Knights-Companions remaining at Court Jhould move himto declare his Pleafure whether h: would that Letters Jhould hefent to all the Knight s-Companions within the Realm to attendhis Per [on for the Choice of a new Knight, at a Day by the fadSovereign appointed, according to the ancient Statutes of theOrder , or be pleas'd to defer the EleSlion until the Feafi of St.George, at what time Elections have been mofl tifualy made',and according as he refolv'din what Place it fhould he, f it

cught (by Letters directed to the Knights-Compamonswithin the Realm) to hi made ktinwn unto them.

This Deferring, or Prorogation of the Election, wasno new thing, tho’ not ind ulged by the Statutes, or de-clared Law, before this 21 Jac. 1. as is evident by theLetter of Summons font after the Death of SirD'Umf-cvil, Knight Companion, temp. H. 4. whereinN°"

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