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111 / om this Diftemper, bur then a quick Application of theSovereign’s foon re&ified it by taking away the Caufe,an! prohibiting Excefs in their Attendants.

for this reaion it was that King James I. obfervingthole Exceffes the eledb Knights run into upon this Oc-calioti, and willing to cheque the growing Inconveniencies,at thelnftallation, o£ Francis, Earl of Rutland, Sir Georgefifotrs, Kt. (afterwards Duke of Buckingham) and the V li-ft tltJU count Lip, -dnno 14 of his Reign, forbid Livery Coats,feeing Charge, and avoiding Emulation ; and fhortlyafter, in a Chapter at Write-Had, Anno 16. with the Con-a oijf.j {ent of the Kjiight s-Ccmpanions then aflembled, to putirpijjt f om e reftraint upon the Number of Attendants, decreed,Orce,] Tint every of the Knights-Companions Jhould have fifty| Ptrforls to attend him unto the Annual Solemnities of the1 Oritr, and no more.

aim i In the Inftalladon of Widiam, Earl of NorthamptonL Amt 5 Car. I. we find this ftinted Number encreafed to1 fourfeore, who began his Cavalcade to Windfor, fromUnburf Houfe in the Strand, and certainly wou’d haved,ial$r edited a more g' or ‘ QUS Show, had not a continual Rainfor three Days lpace impeded him. Neverthelefs, thatwhat he defigned with fo much Splendor and Gallantrymight out-live the accident of foul Weather, the Orderof it (hall be inferred here.

foe Order of riding to the Inf dilation of William,Earl of Northampton, 20 th of April, 1629.

1. Trumpets, whofe Banners were of Damask, andhad the Earls Arms, with his Creft and Suppor-ters environed with a Garter.

2. The meaneft of his Servants; as Grooms and Yeo-men, in Blue Coats, two and two.

3. His Lordfhip’s other Servants, in Blue Coats; asGentlemen, Efquires, and Knights, two and two.

4. Two Secretaries; Mr. Ralph Goodwin, and Mr. Fran-cis Merojfe.

5. Steward, Mr. Cut fiber t Ogle.

6. Comptroller, Mr. William Goodtvyn.

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