<!

ton J

4

'Hs

KfflSfeii»hi:(■St) a;

; 2(iJofl

tcretijin^

i Prir

( 2 45 )

feciuently this Service io executed, ought rather to bejudged to have been done in the Prelate’s than Chancel-lor’s Right.

igaScti

sistotl

ittlrati

(jiy

sue

Lte?

atoll

idk'itiati■Frelitr,;

tSiaWifince thjtie 0*1■OSci;Itt oftjfittfers.

: t*tynit'

n»?.

(j, 9. But whofoever gather’d the Suffrages, theTime when they enter’d upon this Duty (in the Inter-vals of Feafts, where the Occafion requir’d a peculiarChapter for an Election) was ufually after the Chapterhad been open’d, and the Matter of Election propofedby the Sovereign 5 after which he proceeded with allpoifible Reverence and Refpeft.

Howbeit upon an extraordinary Occafion (in theInterval of the Grand Feafts) the Sovereign hath fome-times called an Aflembly of the Knights,Companions,to be convened at the Caftle of Wind for, who in theChoireofSt. George's Chapel (not Chapter-Houfe) afterthe more folemn Manner, have deliver’d in their No-minations, and returning thence into the Chapter Houfe,he there continu’d the Eldftion. Thus did King Hzn-ryVIII. upon the 7 th of ^une in the 1 7th Year of hisReign, in referenceto the E : eft ion of the Lord Hnvy htzRoy, (fo ftil’d in the Scrutiny, and rank’d among theBarons 5 for as yet he was not created Duke of Somerfetand Richmond') and Ralph Id evil, Earl of Wejintorland.

On the 20th of May, Anno 14. Car. I. being T rhnty-Stmday, the Sovereign caus’d a Chapter to be heldthat Afternoon in the Chapter-Houfe at Windfor ,for the Nomination and Eleftion of Charles Princeof V/ales ; at the Breaking up whereof, the Sove-reign and Knights-Companions proceeded immediatelyto St. Georges's Chapel, where at Evening-Prayer,(which was not within the Compafs of the Feaft, forthat began not ’till next Day) the Scrutiny was taken.

And befides thofe Examples which fliew the No-minations have been collefted (upon peculiar Occafions)m the Choire at Windfor, there are one or two Inftancesthey have been alfo taken in the Chapel at Whitehall, ason the 1 5th of May, Ann. \ Car. I. at the Choice ofEdmund Earl of Do-rf t, Henry Earl of Holland, and Thomas' 1 (count Andover, as on the 4th of July the fame Year,whereat the Duke of Chevercux was pitch’d upon.

The

r

I

1

V