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gave to him fix Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence 1

The Earl of Northumberland, in the 2.3 of Henry VlIIbeltow’d on the Garter, for the verbal certify inghim of hisEledion, four Pounds, though he went no farther thanthe Chapter-Houfe Door.

Laftly, Anno 2 6 Elizabeth, the Earl of Jutland honou-rably received the Garter at Newark., and the Lord Scroopgave him thirty Pounds in Gold, a Velvet Cloak, and aCallaway Nag, and to William Dethicky York. Herald, whoaccompanied Garter to Carlijle, ten Pounds.

But fince thefe Times, the Knights eled have enlargedtheir gratuities to Garter, for his Service upon this Oc.cafion.

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Of ^Preparations for the Perfonal Injlalk- iiktion of a Ifnight. ^

jj 1. t I '1 H E Inauguration of a Knight of this moilI Noble Order, confifts in a Conjundion efmany Ceremonies, and contains the moltfoletnn part of thofe, which compleateth, all the reft;and till this great Solemnity be regularly and duly per-formed, the Perlon eleded hath not the Honour to beenrolled among the Number of Founders, but barelypaffes for an eled Knight, and no other : - Per the Sta-tute exprefly lays, That in Cafe a Knight eled die be-fore his Inftaliation, He fhall not be named one of theFounders 5 and the reafon afligned for it is, becaufe hehath not had the full Pofleflion of his Eftate, and in thisPoint do the other Bodies of the Statutes agree. Butwhen the Ceremonies of Inftaliation are compleatly fitu-fhed, without all doubt the Knight is amply veiled, inPoffetlion of ail Honours and Privileges appertaining tothe Founder of this moft Noble Order. But to fpurupeach eled Knight, who is either a Stibjcd to his Sove-reign, or retides within the Realm, land confequcntly isbetter able to provide for Inftallment, than one remain-ing

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