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j, io. The manner of the Order the Knight-Compa-nions Votes ought to be collected when the Scrutiny isin the Choir?, when the Regifter informs us, upon theCelebration of St. Georges's Feaft at Greenwich, 28Bin. VIII. as entred into the Black Book 5 « That heufed his Diligence in going to and fro from one Side to« the other,to demand and redemand the Suffrages from« the Knights-Companions, according to the Variety« and Difpofition of their Stalls, ” which fame Me-thods in eifdem terminis the Chancellor obferved, Anno 24Eh. and without queftion was generally performedat other Sealons, for the annals deferibe it to be per-form’d de more 5 Eliz. or juxta Ordines ConJiitutionisKnno16 Elk.

That the Officer who collects the Scrutiny, is obligedto begin at the youngeft Knight-Companion, and foproceed upward towards the Eldeft, is evident fromthe Order mentioned to be in Vogue, An. 2 and 20 Ehi.as alfo 15 Car. I. But to give a more particular Accountof this Ceremony, as it flood temp. Car. I. and doubt-lefs long before, tho’ not Recorded in Scripts, is as fol-lows.

Firfi, The Officer arofe and went into the Middle ofthe Choire 5 direffly over againfl his own Seat, hemade two Reverences, firfi towards the high Altar, andnext to the Sovereign, then he proceeded up to theChoire near the haultpace againfl the Stall of the juniorKnight-Companion, and there made like Reverence;this done he went up to the Stall of the faid juniorKnight, and with a Angular Reverence to him, only de-manded whom he pleafed to nominate, which havingtaken, (making to him afecond Reverence,) he defend-ed into the Choire, and rhence paffed to the nextfeniorKnight on the other Side, (unlefs by reafon of the va-cancy of the Stall he Sits on the fame Side with the juni-or) and having received his nomination from the fecondKnight-Companion, he again crofifed the Choire to thef bird, and in like mannner he afeended according tothe Seniority of the Knights-Companions prefent, (al-ways eroding the Choire where there was occafion)Until he arrived at the fenior Knight-Companion ; and

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