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We prefume the Queftion, (whatfoever it was) chancednot to be propounded, till the proceeding was ready topafs on, and then ftarted on a fudden, becaufe the Heralds(as the Annals note,) did not quickly difeypher the mat-ter, that it proceeded more from furpnze, than want ofAbility to refolve.

This determination which took Place, was barelygrounded upon Conjecture, and if ferioufly confidered,will appear difconfonant to Precedents and Practice, bothbefore and finccj where all returns are marfhalled an-IWerable tq their fetting forth, unlefs the Condition ofany Perfon in the mean time futfer a Mutation.

It’s obfervable, that when Inftallation pafs by Com-miflioners only, thefe three inferior Officers wear theirRobps, but bear not the Enfigns of their Office in theProceeding. And this feems to be deduced from par-ticular Injunctions, laid down in the Confticutions be-longing to the Officers of the Order, which appoint Gar-ter and Black-Rod to bear the Enfigns of their Officesat the Feaft of St. George, when the Sovereign or his De-puty fhall be prefenr; whence it may be inferred, that ifeither chance to be abfent, they are under no obligationto bear them: For at the Inftallations of Frederick, Kingof Denmark, and John Cajimire, Count Palatine of theRhine, Anno 25 Eli no Enfigns were born by the Of-ficers; and fo was it pra&ifed the Year after, at the In-ftallations of the Earl of Rutland and Lord Cobh/tm, as theRed-Book of Order plainly fets forth. But if the Sove-reign himfelf be prefent, or that he confticute a Lieute-nant in his ftead, the P-egifter then carries the Red-Book,and the Garter and the Black-Rod bear each of them theirHods. It is remarkable, that in every proceeding to In-ftallation, by Lieutenanr, or Commiilicners, the Gartercarries the Sovereign’s Commiflion in his Hand beforethem to the Chapter-Hiufe. At the Inftallation of theEarls of Derby and Moncton, the Officers of the Orderproceeded before the Knights to the Chapter-Houfe, notonly without the Enfigns of their Office, but their Headscovered ; and the reporter of this Inftallation gives thisror a realon ; becaufe there was then neither the Sove-re, S n > nor his Lieutenant, representing the King’s Perfon,prefent, • p

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