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foils amongft us fo well and demonftrably as to fio^inate fuch whom he was confident were irreprehenfible"forbore to mention any Perfons at all. And certainlyfeeing the Statutes put very confiderable Qualificationsupon the Deputies and Proxies* made choice for theInftallation of Strangers (as elfewhere Ihown)more Caution and Regard ought to be ufed both in theNomination and Eledlion of Knights into this radiantand illuftrious Society.
The third Head the Statutes render indifferentlycapable of being nominated or eledled, either KnightsSubjects, or Strangers, [Free Princes or their Subjects.]And it was fo even at the Election upon the firft Choice,where among the Twenty five Eiefted Knights,Twentythree of them were Subjefts. And this was the conftantCuftom not only in the remaining Part of the FoundersReign, and during thofe of his three Succeflors, buthas continued ever fince, as appears from the Scrutiniestaken and entred throughout the Annals of the Order.
Of thofe who have gain’d admiifion into this NobleOrder by EleHion, we fhall in the laft Chapter give anAccount in a compleat Catalogue of them, and likewifeinfert the Names of fuch as have miffed their Election,yet are not to be buried in Oblivion,out of this very re-fpe£t, that by their {landing Candidates, have theFame of being enrolled in the Principal Regifler ofHonour now in the Chrillian World. It cannot hefuppofed we fhould give a Lift of all, (for that were aTask too laborious, and wou’d prove too numerous) butonly of thofe of eminent Quality in foreign Parts, withthe Mra. when the Scrutinies were taken*
A CATALOGUE of fome Strangers -who have kmnominated ., but not eleBed.
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Johannes de Voynada 5
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