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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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la the nth Year of K. James I. fome Exceptions arofeupon the Chancellor’s not prefenting the Scrutiny to thePrince, (who ar that time was the Sovereign’s Lieute-nant) but to the Sovereign himfelf, which was an Errorhe fell into, as well as fome of his Predeceffor’s; as theid, 3d, and 25th of Eli%. demonftrate.

fk Sovereigns Confiderations upon the Qualifications of t ho/eto be elecied.

■J S 11. As the Knights-Companions are under an Obli-gation, by the Statutes, to nominate no Perfon, but whocan bear the Teft of the afore-mention’d Qualifications,there’s a Standard of Honour provided for the Sovereign,to meafure the Extraction, Quality, and Merit of the Per-son propofed to be eleded, leaft it might chance, thro*. j the Indulgence of the Sovereign, this Fountain of Honourmight be mudded by the Choice of inferior and undefer-ys a ving Perfons, for the Statutes run-—becaufe this Orderconfifis of Goodnefs, and honourable Virtue, doth not admitVnmthinefi and Vittany, and fo by Confequerjce fecludesall Perfons of mean Extraction and Merit.

The Qualifications for EleBion are exhibited in the adArticle, as in the 18th are included thofe of Nomination:The Words of the Injlitution are, T hat none /kali be ele-Sed into the Order ; and refer only to the ACt of EleCtion :for if we cpnfult the reft of the Statutes, and comparesI them with this Paffage, they run according to this Te-rtain'i r, ^r> That none /ball be eleBed and cbofen a Companion oflegiM Order. Thefe refer more principally to the Time offeraj Ekdbon, and not to the Invejliture with Garter, and

Hint an d In ft dilation, from the Expreflions of admitting

jjtif a ™ receiving Knights into this Order, as the Examplars ofitt 'll l tatutes Institution fet forth. And this is fartherQjj. ! ? u ^ ate d> from another Paffage in the 2d Article of Henry■•.of tae VIII s Statutes, where the Word Reproach is menti-

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Vfl ^dth, T he Guilt thereof fo incapacitates a Man’s Ele-m “l 0 ”, that f ■ ' ‘ ' ------

V f» that Honour.

here are Two Points requifite for Qualifications andn Wments ; firft, co be a Gentleman of Blood ; and, idly,

that for the future its a Bar, and utterly difjualifies

Vth’ 11 ^/* without Reproach. By the Statutes of Henry the■ s ‘ n fi>tutions, no Man ought to be eleCbed, unlefs heS be

 
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