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in Windfor, wherein are colleded the Names of all chafeKnights-Companions who fucceedpd one another in eic [j $Stall, until the beginning of Henry VII’s Reign. M

Froip which Series of Succeffion, we (hall remarlc how Irexadly the Law in this Ppint hath been obferved, even toKing Henry VIII’s Reign, when it received fome altera- ^tion in this Point. For we find in the Annals feveral ^Knights defigned for the Stall of their immediate Prede. jd^ 1ceflors, by the Honour only of Eledion, although pre. fto ’vented of Inftallation by Death, or other accidents; and June;the Statutes do not only bind him who (hall chance to s d*attain the hfonour of Inftallation, but him who [hall fucceed jt Oror come after the DefunB Knight. Firft therefore we (hall [till 'Inftance in Foreign Kings, among whom we find EricasKing of Denmark to have received Infialtation in Henry V's , (j ?!Reign, not according to the State and Dignity of a King, flitibut into the Stall of that Knight-Companion whom hefucceeded, vi%. the Duke of Bavaria, join the firft Kingof Portugal, a Knight and Companion, likewife in Hn -ry V’s Time, was inftalled in the fecond Stall on the So. gj:.vereign’s Side, which belong’d to Henry Duke of Lett. , jp,caper, his firft Predeceffor : And to this King did fucceed,in the fame Stall, his Son Edward King of Portugal , Anm (13 Henry VI. to whofe Succeffor Humphry, Anno 34, and jCafimir King of Poland were eieded,, Anno 28 Henry VI. [* |veiinto the fixth Stall on the Prince’s fide, at that Time vacant ^by the Death of the Duke Conimbero, whofe firft Founder \ ,jwas Sir John Mohurt. Alphonfus King of Arragon and No- *'L (pies, Anno 38 Henry VI. was eieded into the Stall of ^Don Altro Vafpues Daimed-a Count d’Averence, being the ^feventh on the Sovereign’s fide, Sir Hugh Courtney firft pof- , .felling it. Ferdinand King of Naples and Sicily, electedAnno 3 Edward IV. was inftalled on the third on thePrince’s fide, Ralph Earl of Stafford having been firft in- [fflailed therein. And laftly, we find Alphonfus King ofSicily and Jerusalem, being eieded by Henry VII. received ' 01^iis Inftallation on the Prince’s fide, whofe Predeceffor was zf 1Thomas Beauchamp Earl of Warwick. ^ ®

In the fecond Place, if we aefeend to Foreign Princes, Mk is remarkable, that William Duke of Gueldres, eledfedby Richard II. was inftalled in that 'which Sir John Beau-champ poffeffed, and William Earl of Holland, Haynalt,

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