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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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0B ;y hath his Train carried up, which is ufually per-form’d by fome of his own Gentlemen.

The Proceffional way (if beginning in the Prefence*Chamber,} is from thence in the upper Ward of the Cattle,jnd through the other Wards in at the Cloyfter Door, andjo to the Chapter-Houfe ; bur if from the Dean’s Houfe,they go only through the Cloyfters, into which there is animmediate Paffage from the Deanry : The proceedinghaving entred the Eaft Door of St. Georges Chapel, andpaft by the Chapter-Houfe Door, makes a ftand in theNorth Idle ; while firftthe Officers of the Order, next theKnights-CommilTioners, or elfe the Knights-Affiftancs,and the Sovereign’s Lieutenant ; or laftly the Kmghrs-Companions, and rhe Sovereign with the Sword born be-fore him, pafs into the Chapter-Houfe, but the Knightor Knights eledi do not enter, but as they come in at theChapel-Door, they fall off on the left Hand into the EaftIfle behind the high Altar, and there repofe themfeives,(on Chairs or Stools, with Culhior.s purpofely prepared,)until they are called into the Chapter-Houfe. This hathgenerally been rhe Cuftcm.of which many Examples mightbe produced, but in refpedt to great Perfonages they havebeen fometimes (though rarely) admitted into the Chap-ter-Houfe, with the Sovereign or his Lieutenant, amongwhom Philip of Cajlile and Leon, Anno 22 Henry Vjf.and Prince Henry, Anno t Jac. I. the latter was led in bythe Sovereign’s Lieutenant, when four other eledt Knightsinftalled with him fat till they receiv’d their Summonsto enter.

Sometimethe Sovereign and Knights-Companions wav’dgoing to the Chapter-Houfe, and psfs’d immediately into>he Choir, as did King 'James Anno 9. when CharlesDuke of Tori ( and others were inftalled; the like did KingSharks I. but then a Chapter was held in the Privy-Chamber, before the proceeding fet forward 5 and in theformer inftance, when the proceeding came as far as theEaft End of the Chapel, the Duke of Tork., &c. withMwo; before them, went out of the proceeding into theChapter-Houfe, and there repofed, while the Sovereignproceeded on to the South Door of the Chapel, and ther.ee11,10 Choir,

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