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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 Order in proceeding to the Chapter-Houfe

§ 4. Before we come to the particular Ceremonies ofthe Inftallation, tranfadted either by the. Sovereign, (o rin his abfence by his Lieutenant or Commiflioners,) wefhall premife this general Remark: That fince neitherthe Statutes of Inflitution, nor thofe of King Henry V.afford us a Formulary for the Perfonal Inftallation of a'Knight eledt ; yet thofe enadted by King Henry VIII,do briefly exhibit the Order and Method of it. And wemuft farther obferve, that if the Inftallation be appointedtogether with the Feaft of St. George, then either the So*vereign, or elfe his Lieutenant and Afliftants are prefent;but if at any other Seafon, then it paffech by Commtf-fioners only.

After fuch time therefore as the Sovereign, his Lieute-nant, or Commiflioners, have prefixed the Hour whereinto proceed to the Chapter Houfe, in Order to the Inftal-lation, (which has generally been difpatched in the Even-ing,) all the Knights-Companions, and eledt Knights, theOfficers of the Order, and of Arms, the Prebends of theCollege, and Alms-Knights, are to give their Attendance,vi%. the Knights-Companions, and eledt Knights, andOfficers, of the Order, on the Sovereign, in his inwardLodging; the eledt Knights, and Officers of Arms, in thePrefence Chamber, the Prebends and Alms-Knights, in theGreat Chamber, where they waited the Sovereign’s comingforth.

The Attendance to be given upon the Sovereign's Lieu-tenant, and fuch of the Knights-Companions as are appoin-ted for his Afliftants, is by the Officers of the Order andof Arms, the Prebends ar,d Alms-Knights, either at hisLodgings, or elfewhere he fliall deem meet to appoint ;from which the Knights-Companions are exempt. Forthough the Knights-Companions have fometimes pro-ceeded to the Chappel before the Sovereign’s Lieutenant,at an Inftallation, yet hath it been at fuch time only, asthey accompanied their Sovereign to H-lndfor, to hold theFeaft of St. George ; and if the Sovereign, through any In-difpofition, or weighty Affair, cou’d not pals down to theChappel on the Eve of the Feaft, yet they being obliged

 
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