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Poor, two of the Commiffioners, (when the Inftailatronis Performed by Commiffioners,) or two of the Knights-Affiftants, (when by the Sovereign’s Lieutenant,) or twoofthe Senior Knights, (if the Sovereign himfelf be pre-fenr,) receive him without, who is immediately conducted{tom the Chapter-Houfe Door, up to the Sovereign, (hisLieutenant, or Commiffioners,) to whom he makes hum-ble Reverence ; when the Lieutenant, (or Senior Com-miflicners,) in a fhort Speech, publifhes the effedt of his, . Commiffion, and declares to him the Sovereign’s bountytikj an ^ iea ^y kindnefs, in a full admittance into this Honou-jL.®! table Society, which the eledl Knight very humbly ac-knowledges and accepts. When Philip King of Qafiilee jf’ 5 ’ and Leon was inftalled in Peilon, Anno zz Henry VII.7 1 " the Sovereign being prefent rofe from his Throne, andj ® 1 gave him Information of the Statutes and Ceremonies of!n> * the Order, and how he was bound by them; to all whichhe freely and readily a dented.
Thefe Ceremonies of receiving an cleft Knight beingover, be difrobes himfelf of his upper Garment, then the,, Surcoat and Kirtle is taken from the Table, with which~L*f he is inverted ; and during this Ceremony, the followingWords of Admonition, entred at the end of King Hen. VIII’s
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After this, his Sword is clofe girt about him oVer hisSurcoar, by the Commiffioners, (or the Affiftants to theLieutenant, or fome of the Knights-Companions,) andfometimes in the way of affiftance, Garter hath done thisService; and as foon as the Ceremony is over, the Sove-r ^gn, or his Lieutenant, proceeds into the Choir, leavingire eleft Knights behind them : The Hood was hereto-put on in the Chapter-Houfe, (for fo the Statutes of|* ln ? Henry VIII. do appoint,) after the elefb Knight"atb been inverted with his Surcoat, and before he pro-ce Med ro his Inftallation ; but of late, becaule it muft be
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