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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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tion of the Earl of Shrewsbury and Cumberland, Anna ■>*Elig. But at the Inftallation of the Earl of Jutland, andothers, Anno 26 Elig. the Lord Hunfdon (one of the Com-miffioners for that Solemnity,) refufed to make his Oi-fering alone, though he arrived timely enough, on the Eveof the Feaft at iVindfor Caftle, becaule he wanted theCompany of Vifcount Mountague, who was a joyntCom-miflioner with him, that arrived not till the Mornineafter.

This Offering of the Knights-Commiffioners , coming tothe Caftle on the Eve of the Inftallation, is founded uponan Article of Edward III. which runs to this Effetft : TWif any of the Knights-Companions, being upon a Journey,fbou'd accidentally pafs by \\ r indior-Caftle, he is to turnin thither, in Honour of the Place, and prepare himfelf toenter into the Chappel to Offer ; firjl putting on his Mantle,without which he muft never prefume to enter into it ; butupon Emergencies, and allowable Caufes, he is to be ex-cufed.

After the Knight-Companion had entered the Caftle,the Canons Refident were, by the aforefaid Article, ap-pointed to meet and recieve him, and with due Reve-rence conduit him into the Choir. If it was at theCelebration of High Mals, the Knight was obliged to ftayand hear ir, in Honour of God and Sr. George ; but if hearrived in the Afternoon, he was to ftay till the Canons,and the reft of the Choir, had fung the Anthem de Pre~fundis, which no iooner was ended, but he proceeded tothe High Altar and Offered, and returned to his Stallwith ufual Reverences, and then departed.

But if the Knight-Companion palled through the Townof PVindfor, and negledled to Offer at the Chappel, as of-ten as he omitted ir, he was bound, upon his Obedience,to walk a Mile on Foot to the Chappel, in Honour ofSt. George, and uoon defailure, ro offer a Peny, whichby King Henry VIII’s Statutes is inlarged to a Groat.Upon the Explication of this Article, there arofe a Dibpute about the juft Diftance intended from the Caftle;and that the Knights-Companions might be fenfible of thebreach of the Injundbion, it was thought requifite by KingHemy VIII. to let down a certain Bound, which in his.Statutes is declared to be two Miles ; within which, ifany of the -Companions come, and do not repair

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