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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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Some few Years before King Henry VI. died, he had aSon Born j and though the Emperor Frederick. was electedinto the Order, Anno 35 Henry VI. yet was that Stallreferred for the Prince, (though he never poffefs’dit) andthe Emperor 37 Henry VI. was inftalled by Proxy inthe Duke of Somerfet's Stall, then lately deceafed.

In Edward IV's Reign, the right of this Stall returnedagain to Edward his Son, the Prince of Wales, and inHenry VII’s, to Prince Arthur, but upon his Death, idMaximilian, Son of Frederick. King of the Romans, and af-ter Emperor, enjoyed it. So did the Emperor Charles V.(nis Grandchild,) in regard there was no Son as yet Boutto the Sovereign.

But Prince Edward being Born, while the Stall waspoffeffed by Charles V. it chanc’d likewife that the Kingof the Scots died, which caus’d King Henry VIII. to re-ferve his Stall for that Prince, although he never had Pof-feffion of it, or was ele&ed into the Order, though wefind him once regiftred in a Scrutiny. King Henry VIII.dying, Prince Edward became, both by Inheritance andSucceffion, Sovereign of this moft Noble Order.

From this Time, to the eighth Year of King James I,’there was no Prince of Wales, who finding the Prince’sStall vacant, at his entrance upon the Englifh Throne,didin a Chapter in the firft Year of his Reign, advancethe French King Henry IV. from the fecond Stall on theSovereign’s fide, into it ; and appointed Prince Henry to beinftalled in that King’s void Sear, where he continuedtill Anno 3 Jac. I. that Cbrijlierr/e IV. King of Denmarkcame to be inftalled by Proxy, and the Prince was movedlower to make way for him, though he was Senior bochby Election and Inftallauon. Anno 9 Jac. I. upon theDeath of the French King, not the Prince, whole Rightit was, fince he was created Prince of Wales, but thefaid King of Denmark., was tranflafed to the vacant Srali;and hereupon Prince Henry was returned again to the fe-cond Stall on the Sovereign’s fide, which he enjoyed aslong as he furvived,and upon his Death, Prince Charles wasfetnoved into it, gnd there remained all King James %Reign.

When King Charles II. came to be inftalled, the So-^ereign^jinding him prevented from affuming the Prince sS^all, tne King of Denmark, being yet alive, aiTigned to

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