The Prefentation of it to the Sovereign*

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r P H E Knights-Companions, having delivered theirSuffrages, the Officer by whom they are Colle&edhumbly prefents to the Sovereign the Nominations'for fo it is recorded the Prelate of the Order acted in theyth of Hen. the Vth. If thefe Votes were taken inChapter, the Paper ufually was immediately prefentedto the Sovereign who made his Election, before theChapter broke up 3 but if gathered in the Chapel,tho’ it was given to the Sovereign, yet the choice wasnot made then, but the Morning after, and this was themanner in the 2d and 5th Years of Queen Elh. Ano-ther time it hath not been prefented till the Vefperswere finifhed, but in the Pradice of latter Days theScrutiny hath not been given up to the Sovereign tillthe next Day at the opening of the Chapel before Morn-ing-Prayer, as in the 1 3, 15, 20, 30 Years ofQueen Ehdemonftrates, and was the accuftomed Practice of thex yth Year of King Charles the firft of ever facred Me-mory 3 the laft prefentation was tranfcribed in a littleBook, and with all due Reverence offered upon theKnee, before any other Affair was tranfafled in theChapter.

This has been the general Ufe as we are a {certain’!, WtfAnna % Hen. VI. the Dean of Windfor, and the Regifterof the Order, having Colleftcd the Vote of every pitKnight, they were immediately given into the Hands 'ffi®of the Sovereign’s Deputy 3 and in the fame nature piwere they prefented on the 4th Hen. Vi. when Join fr®Duke of Bedford was Lieutenant, in the 20th of Queen g:Elh.. 3 when the Suffrages were Collected by Sir Francis WWaif.wham the Chancellor, he gave them up to the Earl rj™of Stijfex , then Lieutenant to the Sovereign.

Bxtt it’s evident from feveral Paflages in the Blue ^Book of the Order, that the Lieutenant afterward de-livered them to the Sovereign, as is apparent from theRecords of the 30th, 34th, 38th, and the 40th Year ofQueen Elh.' I"

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