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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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other Bodies of the Statutes, but by the Confiituti onof his Poft, and the Obligation of his Oath, whofe rightwe find duly afferted upon this Pcrfons taking a Scrutiny, Anno 29 Eli*..

The Statutes likewife provided, That if the Prelatewas at any Time abfent, then the Dean of Windfor, otthe Regiftcr, or the Senior Refidentiary of the Collegeor the Secretary, or Scribe of the Order, fihould under-'take the Employment 3 and elfewhere it is mention’dexpresfly, In the ab fence of the Prelate, whofe particularDutyotberti'ife it » And among the various Examples e n-roll’d in the Annals of the Order, thefe Examples a-bundantly confirm it. The Prelate of the Order col-lected the Suffrages from the Knights-Companions, An-no 9 Hen. V. when "John Earl-Marftial, and Four other /Knights were elected. The like did Henry Beaufort, Lord-Cardinal, Prelate of the Order, upon the Election ofJohn King of Portugal , Anno 1 3 Hen. VI. And when theDuke of Suffolk was chole, Anna z(i Hen. VI. the Prelatethen alfo gather’d the Suffrages 3 which he liJcewife didupon the Feafts of St. George, Celebrated in the 12th,13th, 14th, 27th, 28th, 30th, 31th, 34th and 35thYears of Queen Elxabeth's Reign. Sometimes the Scru-tinies have been gathered both by the Dean of IVindfr,and the Regiiter of the Order jointly 3 as we find by theEleftion of John Lord Talbot, Ann. 2 Hen. VI. of SirJohn Falflajf, Ann. 6 Hen. VI. and the Duke of Qttiiibery,Ann. 5 Hen. VI. all receiv’d at the Feafts of St. Georgr,celebrated at Windfor.

It is more than a bare Conjefture, that the Dean atthofe Times receiv’d the Votes from the Knights-Com-panions on the Sovereign’s fide, while the Regiftercol-leCted thofe on the Prince’s 3 for ’tis obferv’d, that inKing Henry Vth’s Reign, in Pofts of different Natures,one whereof was to fignifie the Sovereign’s Pleafuretothe Knights-Companions about their paying due Reve-rence, firft to God, and afterwards to himfelf 3 and theother in a Ceremonial, which directs the Manner andOrder of Mulcting the Knights-Companions 3 in bothwhich, the Dean perform’d the Service on the rightHand the Choir (the Sovereign’s fide) and the Regiftcron the left.

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