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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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the Kjtights-Companions, and Officers of this Order thatthey (hould attend his Royal Perfon, at his Palace ofWhite-Hall, upon thofe Days appointed. In difcharp eof the Duty of my Place, and by fpecial Order, 1fignify unto your Lordlhip his Majefty’s Will, and thatit is his Pleafure, for the more Honour of the Princeand the Noble Feaft of his Election and Inftallation’that your Lordfhip Ihou’d be attended with your Serivants and Retinue, according to folemn Cuftom, andbe prepared to Accompany his Hignefs, from SmerfitHoufe in the Strand, unto the Caftle of Windfor, uponthe 1 3 th of that Month, and aflift at the Ceremony andFeaft of his Inftallation, upon the Day following; p ra y.ing your Lordlhip that you would be pleafed to takeknowlege hereby, both of the Time and Place defigned,and of the Sovereign’s Order, I humbly reft,

St. Martin S-lane

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In all due Obedience,and Obfervahce,

Thomas Rowe.

When this Letter was iffued out, the Sovereign in- Comtended to create the Prince Knight of the Bath, which din, iiCeremonies were intended to begin at the old Palace-yardin Weftminfter, upon the lift Day of May, Amo 13 Car I. imooniand to Solemnize the Feaft of 5 t. George, upon the 23d £

of the fame Month at White-Had, and to take the Scru- ^Clitiny that Evening for his Election into this Order: The ^ ornext Day was defigned to inveft him with the Garterand George, and the Day after to fet forward the Caval- j^,cade towards Windfor, wherein alfo the Knights of the 1 [; j ; jBath, (intended to be created with the Prince,) were toRide with their Robes. Bur this Refolution being alter- .j (([ ;ed, ftop’d the Progreffion of the Cavalcade, and in theroom of a Knight of the Bath , he was created a Knight- ^Batchellor at Windfor . _

Formerly it was the manner for the Sovereign’s Lieu-tenant to Ride to Windfor, attended with a gallant and ^glittering Train, and no fmall Number of his own Gen- ^tlemen and Yeomen richly attired, and in every Puntfti- (i ^

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