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as foon as the Senior is invefted, and his humble Thanksprefented, he moves downwards towards the Chapter-Houfe Door, and there ftands till the next Junior Knightis invefted ; and if there be more, fo on until the Chapterbreak up.

§ 4. Where a Knight-Subjedf, at the time of his Ele-dtion, is far diftant from Court, or beyond'Sea, and theSovereign determines to fend him the Two principal En-Jigns of the Order, the Charge of this Employ does ofright belong to the Garter . For the Proqf of which thereare divers Precedents.

The Letters heretofore lent from the Sovereign, alongwith the Bnfigns of the Order, to the eledf Knights, have,for the moft parr, been drawn after the Form of thofe thatcertify the Eledfion, and differs only in the laft Claufe,which requires the eledf Knight to repair to the Sove-reign : The difference lay not in the Body, but in theDiredtion of the 'Letter, which was always worded ac-cording to the Quality of the Perfon to whom it was fent.As to a Knight-Batchelor, the Diredtion was, To our tru-fly and well-beloved ; and to an Earl, flight trufly, and rightwell-beloved Coufln ; to a Duke, Right trufly, and right en-tirely beloved Coufln, &c.

The Forms of thofe Letters, fenr upon like OceafionstoKnights-Subjedts, when King Charles II. was beyond Sea,were penn’d after another Model, arid contained otheradditional particular Claufes; as, 1. Power ro wear theStar of Silver about St. George’s Crofs ; z. The GreatCollar of the Order 5 and, 3. To ftyle themfelves Knights,and Companions of the Order of the Garter, in as ample aManner, as if they had been inftalled at tVindfor $ withan Affurance of receiving the whole Habit there, whenthe Sovereign was reftored to the Pofieffion thereof.

And it appears from fome of thefe Letters, that by rea-fon Sir Edward PValkjsr, Garter, was othervvife employ’din the Service of the Sovereign, when they were tranf-mitred, the Sovereign pitch’d upon' other Perfor.s, to car-ry both the Letters and Enfigns of the Order, and'yetcontinued the Garter in the Rights of his Office. How-ever, Sir Edward efteeming this devolving his Employ-ment on others, as an Invafion on the Rights of his Office ;rind having a juft regard for the Intereft of his SuccefTors,

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