Druckschrift 
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
Entstehung
Seite
288
Rechtsdrehung 90°Linksdrehung 90°
  
  
  
  
  
 
Einzelbild herunterladen
 

larion were prorogued to the 5 th of December, and ftorrdfo by (everal Prorogations, to the 20th of February nextenfuing ; yet it was ordered that the Earl of Sujfex (hou’dbe immediately inftalled, which was performed on the8th of January, and the Lord Grey the aeth of April fol-lowing ; but Sir Hubert Hpcbefter never obtained that Ho-

nour

Thotigh the time of Inftallation be arbitrary and oncer-tain, yet hath the Place, from the firft Inftitution of theOrder, been appointed only to the Sovereign’s Free Chapelof St. George, within whofe Choice are ere&ed the So-vereigns and Knights-Companions Stalls, and wader itsfacred Roof their Banners and Atchievements are affixed,as^Monuments of their high Merit, and fo great Honour.For though the Celebration of the Grand Feaft of St. George,happened to be removed from Windfor, by a Decree ofthe 1 Elizabeth ; yet the Feait of the Inftallation was ex-cepted, and ordered to be Solemniz’d in that Place: ForAnno 2t Jac. I. it was provided among the Orders,That after an Election made of a Knight of the Order , hisInjidilation fhou'd be performed at Windfor, according to theancient Cujloms and Statutes of the Order. When the So-vereign hath been pleafed to prefix a certain Day for thisSolemnity of Inftallation, there are feveral things to beobtained, previous to it. (1.) A Commiffion to admitand inftal the eiedt Knighr. ( 2.) Letters to each of theCommiflioners, and the eleift Knight, to repair to iVini-for. (3.) Warrants for the Sovereign’s Livery. (4.) ABill or Warrant for the removal of Stalls and Atchieve-ments, all figned by the Chancellor of the Order, withthe Sign Manual of rhe Sovereign: And laftlv, the Knightsown Preparations; among which his Atchievements areto be ready to be hung up, as foon as he is inftalled.

§ 3. No eledb Knight can be inftalled, tinlefs by theSovereign of the- Order himfelf, or by his Commiffiondrawn up in Writing, and palled under the Great-Seal of,the Order, diretffed either to his Lieutenant or Knights-Commiffioners. There is but one Inftance to be found,where the Sovereign hath been pleated to Honour aKnight by inftalling of him himfelf; and that was Philipof Cajlile and Leon, Anno 22 Henry VII. yet it is feafibleenough that Sigifmond the Emperor, and fome other Fo-reign

 
Seiten anSeiten aus
Text aus