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bis Highnefs; ro declare the Reafonmiffion was not fent and executed, as was

the faid Corn-

well as to deliver him the Commiffion it felf -

defigned,

as

t ' ' :'T —v.‘“; > t0 the in-tent ( being prevented of receiving his Initallation at

M^ndfor, becaufe that Caftle contirued in the Poffeffionof the Rebels) it might remain with him as a Memorialof h.s Sovereign’s Princely Favour, and Refpedt to hisQuality and Merits, and for a farther Evidence of his be-ing admitted into this moft Noble Order, fince there wasno other Memorial thereof, but the Minutes of his Ele-< 5 tion, and this Commiffion. And accordingly on Men-day, the 14th of January, 1644. the Chancellor, accom.panied with Dr. Chriflopher Wren , Regifter, and Sit Ed-ward Walker, newly made Garter, attended the Prince athis Lodgings in Oxford ; who, having notice of their De-fign, receiv’d them with all obliging Civi ity; and theChancellor, in an eloquent Speech, made known to hisHighnefs his Sovereign’s Commands, and the Intent ofhis coming; which was no fooner finifhed, but Sir JmeiFainter prefented his Petition to the Prince, who gave hisMajefty many humble Thanks for this gracious Meflage;and acknowledged his Majefty’s Favours beyond his De.fert; but promifed he would ftudy to be more worthyby his Actions, than in return of Words; with manyThanks to the Chancellor, and other Officers of the Or-der, for their Trouble: Whereupon they took their Leave,and the Chancellor went immediately to his Majefty, andgave him a Narrative of what they had done.

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$ V. It was an ancient Cuftom, and part of theCe- --Pcremony belonging to the Invefticure with the Garter, to iic,.give him an Oath, whether he was a Stranger or a Sub- Stubjetft-Knighc, which we find ftyled, T be Oath in fuch Cafti ®tiqaccuflomed to be taken • and which was to this etfeeft; Hint ilKujthe Knight fhould wed and faithfully kjep and obferve, ft St s ,far as God fhould enable him, all that was contained in the ’V.icr.)Statutes of the Order : But this of late hath been dilufed, ^and not impofed, unlefs upon foreign Princes. 'Psr

It is obiervable, that Anno 4 Hen. VI. a particularCommiffion was iffiaed, to the Earls of Warwick,, Salts-buy, and Suffolk^, with Power, to any Two, or One of ^them, to receive this Oath from Sir John Fatftojf, upon

his Inveftiture ; which was belldes the Oath his Proaor

was