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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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fiat ton, the 23d of May, Anno 30 Elizabeth, which de-monstrates thofe three elecft Knights appear to be in-called in the lowermoft Stalls, (as the laft mentionedDecree enjoynsj and by reafon the Earl of Effex, andSir Cbrifto-pbcr Hatton, were fettled on the Sovereignsfide, the vacancy in the eighth and twelfth Stalls of thefame fide became filled up j the Earl of Huntington beingadvanced into the eighth, the Lord Grey in the ninth,and the Earl of Pembrool^ in the tenth Scall, by the ad-vance of the Earl of H'orcefter into the feventh on thePrinces fide, the vacancy is there fupplyed, and the otherKnights feated below him, by a like removal, left thetwelfth Stall for the Earl of Ormond, and the thirteenthvoid.

The fame Order was obferv'd by King James, as ap,"pears by another Scheme of the Stalls fettled on the 3d ofJuly, Anno 1 Jac.l. at the Eledlion of the Duke of Lenox,the Earls of Northampton, Marr, and Pembrook-

Stalls altered at a Chapter held at Windfor, the3 July , Anno 1 Jac. I.

JAMES Rex.

1. The Sovereign

I . The Prince

3. Earl of Nottingham

4. Earl of Ormond

5. Earl of Salop

6. Earl of Ncrthumberl.

7. Lord Sheffeild

8. Lord Hunfdon

9. Sir Henry Lea

10. Lord Cobham

II. Earl of Derby

12. Duke of Lenox

13. Earl of Marr

1. The French King

2. Void

3. Void

4. Lord Buckhurft

5. Earl of Cumberland

6. Earl of Worcefter

7. Ld. How. of Walden

8. Lord Montjoy

9. Earl of Sulfexto. Lord Scroop

11. Lord Burleigh

12. Earl of Southampton

13. Earl of Pembrook

From hence it is evident, that thefe eleift Knights wereinftalled in the loweft Stalls, and fo continued throughoutthe feries of his Reign, and fince, except the Prince ofWales, and Charles Duke of Tori, Sons to the fa id Sove-reign : For the Prince was inftalled on the fecond on the

Sovereigns