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But the Sovereign, to arrive as near to the Intentionand Obfer vance of the Statute as he could, (where therewas a poffibility to do if, and the Honour would bewell accepted by the Prince) thought it requifite byCommiffion under the Great Seal of England, to im-power Thomas Earl of Arundel and Surry, and George LordGoring, both being then in Holland , or either of them, toKnight the faid Prince before putting on the Garter(feeing it could notpoffibly be done before his Election)which was intended to be Lent by him by the Hands ofSir John Burrough , Garter. But Death intervening, theSovereign’s Intention was fruftrated 5 altho’ the Prince,upon his coming afterwards into England , receiv’d boththe Garter and the George from the Sovereign himfelfatNottingham neverthelefs without Knighthood, which toexcufe, it may well be alledg’d, that the Sovereign mightnot recoiled! this Part of the Ceremony, it being a Timeof fo great Turmoil and Fatigue, occafion’d by the thenfetting up of his Standard.

However, upon the 17th of 'January, 1644. when aDecree paft in Chapter then aflembl’d at Oxford, Thatboth the Duke of Yorf and the Prince, Ihould enjoy allEmoluments and Privileges of the Order, tho’ theywere not as yet Inftall’d (which Ceremony was to becompleated affoon as Windfor was out of the Power ofthe Rebels.) The Prince, before he receiv’d his Oath,was conduced by the Earl of Berf-fhire and Duke ofRichmond and Lenox, unto the Sovereign, and had con-ferr’d on him the Honour of Knighthood, there beingat the fame Time two of the Nobility Knighted in Me-morial of that Solemnity, the Lord Henry Seymour, Se-cond Son to the Marquefs of Hertford, and the LordCabell, condu&ed each between two Knights.

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