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The Ceremonies perform'd in the Chapter-Houfe. ^
§ 5. After the Lieutenant’s entrance into the Chapter. 'f<Houfe, and opening the Chapter; Garter, with three \f ! ‘ :Reverences, prefents firft the Commiflioners ofLieute- •$)nancy to hold the Feaft, next that of Inftallation, to theLieutenant, for if the Inftallation pafs'd by Commiffiontts, j^ithen only the Commiflion of Inftallation to the Senior SicitCommifiioner,) which being receiv’d, he delivers it to the t#Regifter of the Order, who forthwith Reads it; fa tohim this Duty belongs, as is recorded in the Black-Book Strflflof the Order, on occafion of Garter's reading the Com- -in 1million for Inftallation of Sir Thomas Brandon, Anno n jj[,iHenry VII. the Regifter being then abfent. t \$
When the Regifter hath read the Commiflions, he re- j#Gturns them to the Lieutenant, (or Commiflioners,) and he ,|tfiagain to the Garter, as at the inftallation of the Earls of *aniShiembiery and Cumberland, Anno 34 Elisfc If the $ove- ^reign be prefenr, the Chancellor acquaints him the Knights id Ieled are without, otherwile the Lieutenant, and Affvft.ants, (or Commiflioners) confult touching the calling in,and receiving them, and Garter is ufually employed in this -j,> tj.Service ; who, with all due refped, compliments and con- ^duds him to the Chapter-Houfe Door; But in the in- .j.»fiance of the Earls of Shrevsbury and Cumberland zioreizii,Carter wen; to their Lodgings, and having delivered hisMelfage, they forthwith repaired to the Chapter-Houfe,their Train attending them to the Door : At the Inftal-lation of Francis Duke of Montmorency, the Ea.l of Lei ,eefier, then the Sovereign’s Lieutenant, as an evidence of ^lingular refned, fent from the Chapter two of the four ^Alliftants affigned him, who taking Garter, and the Of-ficers of Arms before them, led him thence between them ^to the Chapter-Houfe. ^
When there are two or more eled Knights, that waitin the Eaft Ifle, expeding to be called in, Garter firft con- ,duds the Senior by Eledion to the Chapter-Houfe Door,and fo the reft; in their feveral Orders, as inby the Earl of Jutland, Sir George ViBars, and the Vif- ^count Li fie ; and fo again 1 3 Car. II. As foon as Garterbath conduded the eled Knight to the Chapter-Houfe- Door,