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Knights (the Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery, and ofArundel and Surry ) were intreated by the reft of ^Knights-Companions, to prefent his Highnefs to theSovereign in the Name of all the reft, to be initiated aKnight-Batchelor. He was conducted by the faidEarls(his Supporters) into the Prefence-Chamber in WkJLCajlle , where before the Chair of State, he moft S 0 .lemnly receiv’d the Order of Knighthood from histher King Charles I.

To Honour which Knighthood, and the Memorythereof, Four of the chief Nobility then prefent wereKnighted, viz. the Earls of EJfex, St. Alban s and Elgin,and Vifcount Grandifon, being conducted from the GreatChamber to the Sovereign’s State, each between twoBatchelor-Knights.

Afterwards the Law in this Point began again tobe more rightly underftood 3 and by that Time JmtDuke of York, came to be elefled (which was the 20thof April, 18 Car. I. at the Feaft of St. George celebrated atYork) the Sovereign appointed, and accordingly con-ferr’d Knighthood upon him the Day before, which hereceiv’d upon his Knees, being conduced into the Pre-fence-Chamber between two of the Nobility, who werealfo Knights, the Marquefs of Hertford and VifcountGi'andijon . In Honour and Commemoration whereof,Four other Noblemen receiv’d the Honour of Knight-hood at that time, the Earl of Carnarvan, the LordsGeorge D’Aubignie, John Stewart, and Bernard Stevart, eachfupported by two Knights.

And thus Prince Edward Count Palatine of the Rhim,and George Duke of Buckingham , being ddigned byKing Charles II. to be admitted into this Noble Order,were both firft Knighted at St. Germains in France , id49-and afterwards had the Enfigns of the Order fent untothem, by the Hands of Sir Edward Walkers Kt. Garter,who, in right of his Office, invefted them therewith.

Yet in the Cafe of Prince Rupert, who was eleclewith James Duke of York, Ann. 18. Car. I. His want 0Knighthood became no impediment, becaufe he was aPrince in another Country, viz. Count Palatine of t cRhine, and Duke of Bavaria, and might therefore F 1Privilege to come within the 0

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