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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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eleafures nominate or propofe to el eft fuch Perfons asfhey deem meet, fo they be qualify’d according to theStatutes, this Privilege is to be underftood of KnightsSubjefts only: For in all Cafes concerning Strangers, theSovereign doth but barely grant them Sufferance, andmay direff and confine the Knights-Companions to thedomination of fuch as he at any time intends to Honourwith Eleflion, which Prerogative was particularly Affer-Ic d, 31 Eli*» and 3 Car. I.

In the Firft of thefe Inftances, the Blue Book, of theOrder recordeth, That at a Chapter held immediatelybefore Vefpers on St. George’s Day, the Earl of Huntingdon,then Lieutenant for the Sovereign, made known to theKnights-Companions, That the Sovereign did permit them,nr leave it to their Pleafure to chufe into the Order whatfoeverforeign Prince they Jhould by their Votes approve of.

Here we have two Points that offer themfelves toour Confideration. Firft, That the Knights-Companionshave not the Liberty to nominate what Foreign Princetheypleafe, but the fame is derivative from the Sove-reign, and only by his Permiffion. Secondly, To weighthe Paragraph well, that Nominare ought to be ren-der’d or underftood here by the Word Eligere, and thatthe Power delegated to the Knights-Companions fromthe Sovereign, was only to nominate, noteledl; For itimmediately follows, That the Knights-Companions wentfrom the Chapter to the Second Vefpers , and while the DivineOffices vcere celebrating, the Prelate receiv’d their Nominations,and that very Evening the Lieutenant prefented them to theSovereign for her to confider of 3 which had been infignifi-Cant and ufelefs, if the Knights-Companions had beenimpower’d by her Licence to have made the Choicethemfelves. But the contrary is evident; for the nextMorning, all the Knights-Companions attending theSovereign in Chapter, fhe herfelf confirm’d there theEleflion not of any Foreign Prince, but of the Earl ofSuffix, and the Lord B uckfurft.

In the other Inftance, Jnno 3 Car. I. the Sovereign ina Chapter held before Vefpers on St. George’s Day, fig-nify’d it to be his Pleafure (Three Stalls being thenvacant) that out of Foreign Prince,s, the Nomination of whom,(faith the Annals in that very Place) belongs only to the

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