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^nt and illuftrious an Order. And in purfuar.ee of thisDscree, there is frequent mention made of the deliveryQ { fat Scrutiny into the Hands of the Regiftcr, in orderI0 be Recorded.

The Blue Book fays, Anno zz Elizabeth ; That theChancellor himfelf delivered the Kjsights-Companions Votesto the Regifter, t0 be committed to Writing, for a perpetualMemorial j and accordingly the Re gift er, as his Duty obligedhim, tranferibed them, and put them in their proper Place,with all Care and Fidelity. Anno 34 of the fame Queen,Vis laid, the Votes were delivered to the Regifter, who tool £care to Record them, according to ufual Order. Yet mau-gre this Law, the Entry of Scrutinies hath been fome-times omitted, either by the Regifter' s forgetfulnefs of theDecree, or fome accidental Milcarriages. In lome Placesol the Annals, in the room of Scrutinies, we find Ex-cufesentered, as it’s faid, Anno 2S Elizabeth; that thePrelate, immediately after Vefpers, prefented the Scrutinyto the Sovereign ; but becaufe there was no Election madeof any new Knights, in regard of hurry, or weighty andprefling Affairs, it was laid afide, and through Neglecthfi, or at leaft came not into the Regifter s Hands, to beinferted in its proper Place. And when the Dean of Wind-for colleded the Scrutiny at Vefpers, Anno 1 3 Elizabeth,it’s faid, No Eleciion was made, nor anything - elfe done :The like Excufe is made, Anno 5 Charles . 1 . but the Faultis thrown upon the Chancellor,; for though the Scrutinyhad been taken by him, during* the Vefpers cf the Feaft-Day, yet would he not fujfer it to be entered ■ In fome Placeswe find, Anno 3 r Elizabeth,, the Votes being prefented,they were left with her. And Anno 11 Charles I. the Scru-tiny of Afgernoon Earl of Northumberland never came tothe Regifter’s Hands. -

But the Law yet remains in force, that all Nominationsand Votes of the Kjiights-Comp anions ought to be enter’damong the Annals , whether E edbion be made or not, un-fefs it (hall pleafe the Sovereign, upon form* Emergency, toforbid it: As appears but by one Examp'e of fuch aPro-hioition, vi%. Anno 40 Elis;. where, by the Queen’s lpe-c 'al Command, the Scrutiny then token was not recordedamong the AHs of this moft. Noble Ordn. B it then it is de-clared, That eh - ifler took. cere to fee down all the Paf-Jages as they happened, the Names only excepted. And

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