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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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the Day before was read over in the Chapter-Houfe, theSovereign declared, That he would receive no Man into theOrder before his Son Charles. Whereupon all the Knights*Companions gave their Opinions, That this fiejolution wasrather the effect of Juflice, than Fatherly Indulgence ; finesthey all acknowledged him, to be more a Prince by Merit ,and toward.inefs of his Youth, than by the Fortune of hisBirth. At which the Sovereign exprefied his Satisfactionno otherwise than by Silence.

And in like manner, Anno 1 5 Charles I. when the Chan-cellor of the Order gave up the Scrutiny to the Sovereign,

he declared. That he had a purpofe to have Cbofen

Prince Rupert, his Nephew, a Knight of the Order • butbeing then a Prifoner with the Emperor, he would not Electmy at that Time ; whereupon, a vacancy of a Stall wasreferred. It has fometimes been the Sovereign’s Pieafureto defer Elections, withons exprefllng the Caufe, as inthe 13 of Elizabeth-, though fne perufed the Scrutiny inChapter, yet the Blue Booh informs us ; That the /aid So-vereign made no Election, though two Stalls were vacant.Thus was it in the 2, 3, 1 1, ana 12, of K. James I. whereno other mention is made than this 3 none were admittedinto the Order this Year.

Sometimes we find thefe Prorogations of Elections re-corded, as folely done by the Will of the Sovereign j andat other Times by the Sovereign, and the approbation ofthe finights-Comp aniens ; to the firft of thele we find aMemorial, in the 22 of Elizabeth, on the 24 of April ;that the Knight s-Companions had a Meffage fent to theirChapter, held before Morning-Prayer ; That it was thePieafure of the Sovereign to prortgue the Election to the follow-ing Tear. And fo it was, in the 10th of Charles I. thoughthe Nomination was taken by the Chancellor, and pre-fented to the Sovereign in Chapter, the Sovereign did notthinly fit to make any Election at all.' And tor a Tefti-mony of the (econd, we meet with this Inftaace, in the17 th of Elizabeth ; that with the concurrent Approbationand Affent of all the Kjiights-Companions then rffifiing,the Sovereign thought fie to put off the Election to anotherT/we. As to the Teeming difference of the Sovereign’s ab-jolute Authority, and yet the Kjiights-Companions Appro-bation, we have cleared uo that Point in the Act of Ele-

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