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it was ordained, That if a Knight-Companion (hould hap: 'jl/ipen to be retained in the Service of a Foreign Prince to jy *take up Arms in his Quarrel; and after his Adversary frdefined to entertain another Knight-Companion on his Side - 1alfo ; he thac was laft invited, was bound to wave this $Offer, and in no wife to give his Confent. And upon this r\the Knights-Companions were obliged to make fpecial Pre’ frcautions in that their Engagements ; that if any of hisFellows were retained on the other Side, and that if he f c '® sknew not thac another of his Fellows had been engaged ^with the Adversary, fo foon as it came to his Know-lege, he was.- obliged to relinquifh the Service he beforehad undertaken. | ij. ] 5

To thefe three Points of Reproach we have fet down’ xff'we find in a Manufcript, that belonged to Hmy Grey, thirdMatquifs of Suffolk ., a fourth added to thefe Other three pif® (Points of Reproach ; in thefe Words: '-J &

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Cbat if anp EntBibt of tbe SD?netr, from ^fjettcefo?tlj, tip pjobtgalttp ot Ei»ot, uitlfuilp ** co? negligently; Spfpenb, aai, aiteng, ojboamp ijts pattimony of Kbeltboob, bp tea- *'7,fan tubeteof, ije (bait not be able fponouta- S,Up to maintain bimfeif, anb bis Ctfate, titfucb ©onoutabie scanner, as map Cottfem «mtije honour of tbe fain SDfbcr, anb of ijim- im-mft if ; in tijtb Cafe be ibali be ^mmmoneb ■■wbp tbe Clfbet of arms of tlje Dfber, callebtbe blach Eob 5 bp Commanbment of tbe

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peat before bio s^ajeflp, 0? bio Cominilfi- !!“oneto, anb tbe ftmoiijts of tbe £)fber, at tljenett chapter enfttiii 07 tbete to be eramtiteD ^before tbe ©aberatfiu, oj bis fatb Commtf- sb,fioners, anb tbe Enigbts anb Companions *1*;of tbe faib C>?bet ^ anb if fje be founb in s,

fucb gteat Default Of Prodigality, i.nfolent Riot, Mdor wilt .1 Negligence;, tbat tbtit t|)E ©Obf- '’i 11 *

taign, ml) tbe abbice of tbe Companp of gii

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