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of York, and Prince Rupert were defied Fellows of t kinoble Society. s
The like Difpenfation was made at Oxford upon thead of March, Anno 20. Car. I. there being but fi veKnights-Companions prefent with the Sovereign 5 a{which Chapter, William Prince of Orange, and Bernard deFoix, Duke of Efpernon, were defied.
Last of all, in reference to the holding three feveralChapters preparatory to the Feafl of St. George, andgrand Inflallation celebrated at Windfor the 1 5th, itfthand 17th of April, 13. Car. II (one of which Chapterswas held for the Eleflion of Four Knights, and to de-liberate with the furviving Knights-Companions) theSovereign was pleas’d the 2.9th of March preceeding, topafs the like Difpenfation under the Signet of the Orderand his own Sign Manual, for this defefl 5 and therebymade thofe three Chapters as legal as if the Number ofKnights-Companions had been compleat.
5. We are now arriv’d at opening the Chapter,whereinto neither the Sovereign, nor any of the Knights*Companions are to be admitted without the Ornament,both their Mantles and Garters, as the Statutes ordain,and the Law is Hill in force, tho’ the Chapter hath beenaflhmbl’d elfewhere than at Windfor. As for inftance,one call’d at Wkitehall for the Eleflion of John CountPalatine of the Rhine, Anno 20. Elk. the Earl of Hunting-don, and the Lord Grey of Wilton, not having theirMantles then at Court, were not permitted to enter in-to the Chapter to give their Votes.
King Charles I. determining to call a Chapter forelefling the forefaid Thomas Earl of Strafford at York,where neither he nor any of the Knights-Companionsthen attending his Perfon, had the Robes of the Orderwith them ; and taking into his Royal Conlideration,the Statutes now mention’d, did by his Authority, asSovereign of the Order, difpence with thofe Knightsthen prefent for coming ijito the Chapter without theirMantles.
After warp, upon other Emergencies that ow’dtheir Origin to the late Rebellion, the Sovereign didthe like in fome fubfequent Chapters held at Oxford.
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