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tice is taken of the Limitation given by the Statutes, af-ter Certificate of Death, viz. Six Weeks, within the Spacewhereof a new Eledion was to commence 5 yet where aChapter for Eledion could not conveniently be fummo-ned within that limited Time, it was fufficient if theSoveraign declared as he did in the faid Placart andentered in the Black Book, That being then involved inether Bufaefs, he could not well attend this Affair, and there-fore drf err’a the time for Eleftton, unto the Eve of St. Georgemxt following.

But of later Date, this formal Way of Summons byLetter, hath been difcontinued, and only remained tofuch as are remote, and warned only by a verbal Meflagc.For the Chancellor of the Order having confulted theSoveraign’s Pleafure, as to the Day and Place, ufuallyacquaints Garter therewith, who thereupon goes imme-diately to the Knights Companions then at Court, anddefires their Attendance at the Chapter, according to theSoveraian’s Defignation.

And here it is to be remarked, that no Knight Electought to be fummoned to a Chapter of Eledion, or arerendered fufficient of giving their Votes therein, untilthey be compleatly inftalled, either in Perfon, or byProxy. Nor indeed did any Neceffity intervene, or re-quire it till the late rebellious times, when the Callle ofW'mdfor being Garrifon’d by the Parliament’s Forces, itWasnotpoffible for the Duke of Yorh_ and Prince Rupert,to take Pofleffion of their Stalls, as the Law of the Or-der enjoined. Therefore the then Soveraign, whofeRight it is, did, x 7 Jan. 1644, difpenfe with their In-ftallations in St. George's Chapel, for the prelent, andmvefted them with the Privileges of the Order, amongwhich the Power of voting in Chapter, was one : Pro-j V) ded thofe Princes Ihould firft take the Oath given atRations, ar| d afterwards perform the accuftomedCeremonies, fo foon as it Ihould be thought convenient,the Caftle was reftored to the Pofleffion of his Ma-f T compliance to which Provifo they both thenP°k the Oath, and on the Eve of the firft Feaft ofj after the Reftoraticn, the Duke was inftalled5° n the Eve of the fecond Feaft, 15 Car. a. by theQz Earl*