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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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w aS afterwards to take at the Inftallation, which Sir Johnempowered him to do on his behalf; which was, SuchOttth as Jhonld be required at the time of Inftallation.

Airho’ we have fully treated of the Ceremony and Man-ner of inverting a Knight eledt, with the Garter and George,we (hall fnbjoin Two or Three confiderable Inftances, asnioft proper to this Place.

'When Philip, Prince of Spain, Anno 1 Mari.c, had thefeEnfigns of the Order fent him, the Sovereign joyn’d Gar-ter King of Arms, with the Earl of Arundel, to performthe Inveftiture ; who, upon notice of his arrival on theCoaft of England, let forward on their Journey to South -anftni ; where, on Friday the 20th of July, they tookWater, and meeting the Prince before he landed, enteredhis Barge, and gave him notice of his Election in a fhortSpeech; which being ended, Garter having the Garter inhis Hand, killed it, and fo prefented it to the Earl, whoforthwith fatten’d it about the Prince’s Leg ; and afterGarter had prefented the Earl with the George , hang-ing at a Chain of Gold, he put itlikewife about the Prince’sNeck. The Ceremony of Inveftiture being thus perform-ed, the Prince came on fliorc at Southampton ; and onthe uppermoft Stair were ready attending his landing,the Marquis of FVmchefter, Lord High Treafurer of Eng-land, with divers other Lords: The Prince gave the LordWiliams his White Staff, and made him Lord Chamber-lain of his Houlhould ; and Sir Anthony Proton, Mafter ofhisHorfe, prefented him, from the Queen, a Horfe witha Foot-doth of Crimfon Velvet, richly embroider’d withGold and Pearls, having the Bridle and all other Eytrni-ture fuitablc, whereon he rode to the Cathedral, and afterPrayers to the Lodging prepared for him.

Concerning the Garter’s Inveftiture of the Earl of ff’/ir-mc i at Ncrvhaven in France, the firft of May, Anno s Elis'.«as follows: The Garter repairing firft to the Earl’s Lcdg-ln ? s . put on his Mantle in the next Chamber to the Earl’s,and proceeded into the Earl’s Chamber ; where, having'nude Three Reverences, he buckled the Garter about hi?^ ^eg, a nd after put on the George and the Ribbandout-his Neck ; reading to the Earl the Words of the'Unification, appointed to be pronounced ar the Invefti-Urc 5 which being concluded, Garter retir’d into the Room

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