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Thus King Charles l. Anno 6 Regni fui , defigning toinveft ?<»»« Marquels of Hamilton with this Order, con-ferr’d the Honour of Knighthood upon him immedi-ately before his Nomination : And the Annals in thatPlace put this commentary Remark thereupon, Becaufetythe Statutes it is provided, that none fiotild he eleSed intothe Order that have not been dignify’d with the Title of Knight.

Yet the Ceremony of Knighting the Perfon defignedto be elected, was not fo ilriftly regarded, but fome-times this Branch of the Statute was either wholly paf-fed, or elfe confounded with the fecond Article through-out the feveral Bodies of the Statutes, which prohibitsthe Choice or Election of any Perfon into the Society,asthis doth the Propofal or Nomination. And there-upon perhaps it was conceiv’d, that altho’the Nomina-tion, Election, and fometimes Delivery of the Enfignsof the Order was firll difpatch’d and paft, yet it wasfufficient if the Honour of Knighthood was conferr’dafterwards; as in the Cafes of William Earl of Derby andThomas Lord Burleigh, Anno 43. Eliz.. where the Rcgi-fler obferves, That as loon as their Election was over,and they Ulher’d into the Chapter, the Earl of Derby,(who itfeems had not been Knighted before) was dub-bed Knight with a drawn Sword, according to Cuftom,after which they had the Garter and George put on bythe Sovereign her felf.

In like manner, XJlrid »_ Duke of Holjlein, and HenryEarl of Northampton, immediately after their Eleflion,(thelaftDay of St. George’s Feaft, Ann. ^.jjac.l.') andbefore they receiv’d the Enfigns of the Order, had theDignity of Knighthood conferr’d on them by the Sove-Ic >gn; and in like manner the Earl of Suffer, Ann. 3 C. I.which the Red-Borfof the Order recites, That as foonasn 'fas underflood that the Earl bad not receiv'd the Or deb offd’sfthmd before, the Sovereign immediately drawing ■ hisKnighted him •, which was not done till after hisElefilion and Inveftiture with both the George andbarter.

Pl*^ US ^ Ceremony of Knighthood fucceed the

wtion of Charles Prince of Wales, the 21ft of May,nn - 14 Car. I. for after he had been defied, and in-

Ve fted with the Enfigns of the Order by the two SeniorR 1

Knights