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Knigtirs Affifltants, where a Lieutenant was cohftituted-’ i'^or laftly between the two Senior Knights-Companion* it tthe Sovereign being prefent: But when there hath been’ s/three Commiflioners named, then the two Senior Com- ymiflioners take the Knight eledt between them, and theJunior Knight-Commiffioner proceeds before them-which was obferved at the Instalment of the Earls of • fd' 1 ’EJfex and Ormond , and Sir Cbriflopber Ptatton, 30 £/,V ..ji»

In all cafes where the Sovereign is prefent at an Inftj]. !{|iolation, after the cuftotn of invefting with the Collar ih "futetthe Chapter-Houfe was left off, it is generally to be ob- joifferved, that as loon as the Inveftiturc with the Surcoatis Jjo,finilhed, the Sovereign paffes from the Chapter-Houfe jndberinto the Choir, with the whole proceeding before him: Qu®leaving the eledt Knight behind 3 and when he and the jfoifiKnights-Compamons have taken their Sta Is, the two .toilerSenior Knights-Companions, by the Sovereign’s verbal «ediDiredtions, defcend from their Stalls, and Hand under Jciptheir Banners, whilft the Alms-ftnights, but not the Pre-bends, Officers of Arms, and the three inferior Officers of Jorf,the Order, pafs out of the Choir, and proceed before jj mthem to the Chapter-Houfe, from whence they introduce ^ ^the eledt Knight into the Choir to his Inftallation • but ' J tif there be more than one Knight inftalled, then the two ^next Senior Knights defcend, and lo the next, till all the ‘eledt Knights are condudted in : And this Courfe is like-wife obferved when a Lieutenant is ccriftiruted, and hathbeen generally fo pradtifed fince the Inveftiture with theCollar was performed in the Choir; and particularly at 'Wthe Inftallations of the Duke of Lenox, the Earls of Pern- Mbtook_, Marr, and Southampttn, i Jae. L and of the Duke $kbof Holftein, and the Earl of Northampton, 3 Jac. I. In this iS’i,proceeding to Inftallation, the Regifter ufually carries S diet!Book of the New Teftament, for the eledt Knight to take !;«his Oath on, as likewife the Oath it felf, fairly Writtenon ParchmenrGarter bears his Mantle till h'e arrives at i®, this Stall; and King Henry VIII’s Statutes place fhisSer- rojvice upon feme of the Knights-Ccmpanior s likewife;but it never appears that it was ever performed by any of ^them. ’Tis probable, that about the time when' this In- ^junction pafled, it was the Cuftom for Garter to bear the 1-,,^Mantle on his Arm ; for fo it was at the Inftallation of s.^the Lord RuJJel, and ethers, 31 Henry VIII. but it was