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Were to be laid all the particular Ornaments Juft nowmentioned 3 being aflifted with the Knights, and a PaCface left f r bi m to nhake his Three Obeyfances, he fhouldtroeeed up towards the Duke, and lay the Culhion withthe Ornaments upon a Stool fet near his Highnefs for thatrurpofe.

1 That he fhould fignifie to his Hignefs, in few Words, theCaufe of his coming, and then deliver into his Hands the

Sovereign’s Letter.

. That his Highnefs having receiv’d ir, fhould break it■ open, and deliver it back to the Garter to be read 3 whichbehaving done, fhould return it to his Highnefs.

That, after this, he fhould proceed to the Inveftiture ofhis Highnefs with the Enfigns of the Order.

Which being done, he briefly reprefented unto hisHighnefs, in a Speech, fomewhac of the Quality andSplendor of the Order.

And, Iaftly, to kifs his Highnefs Hand, and'fo depart.And according to thofe Propofais, and in the fame Order,were all Things performed.

Saw $ 6 . The Sovereign of this moft Noble Order defrays, the Charges of the Garter, whenfcever, and as often as! he is difpatch’d to any elefi Knighc-Subjefi, either withsis.’ Letters to fignifie his Elefiion, or to inveft him with theGarter and George ; and this is commonly proportioned ac-isM cording to the length or the (hortnefs of the Journey. Theitoj Allowance for the Journey which Sir Gilbert Dithicl^, Gar-itlMt cep made into the Counties of Lincoln and Cumberland ,firft to the Earl of Rutland, and then to the Lord Scroop,i O.s when Queen Elizabeth was Sovereign, appears to havebeen 10 l.

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Betides the Sovereign’s Allowance to the Garter, he re-ceives honourable Gratuities and Rewards from the elefiKnight himfeif, after he has performed the Inveftiture ;and thefe have ufually been proportioned, according tothe ellimate of the Honour he receives, and the particularaffection he has for the Garter, and the fervice done byb'm. Among whom, Anno 17 H-my VlU. we find theBari of Arundel beftow’d on Thomas fey, Garter,

!f n Pounds in AngeWs, beimt then at his Marmor ofand [{aljh Earl of fVcJlmmeland , defied ar theaitle Time with the aforefaid Earl, being at Mile-end,

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